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Veronica crista-galli

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Veronica crista-galli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Veronica
Species:
V. crista-galli
Binomial name
Veronica crista-galli

Veronica crista-galli, the crested field-speedwell, is an annual flower in the family Plantaginaceae native from Iran north to the North Caucasus.[1]

Description

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An annual, bright blue flowered speedwell with a straggling habit (to 50 cm), superficially resembling, Veronica persica, with solitary flowers emerging from the stem with the leaf stalks, but its leaves have more numerous veins, flowers are shorter-stalked and smaller (generally smaller than the calyx it sits within), of a fairly uniform blue, and the calyx itself is formed of two, lobe-tipped parts, instead of the usual four unlobed parts; whilst the fruit when it matures is also concealed within the calyx rather than obvious, and has two parallel lobes, not divergent. [2]

Photographic examples can be seen on iNaturalist.

Distribution and habitat

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Its native range is Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, and is introduced in the British Isles [1] where it inhabits cultivated and rough ground and waste places.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b c Plants of the World Online (with map)
  2. ^ a b Peter Sell & Gina Murrell. Flora of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 3, p. 469.