OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Veronica americana   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Veronica americana   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Veronica americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Veronica americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Field Manual of Michigan Flora (Voss & Reznicek, 2012)

Veronica beccabunga var. americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-20-009:

Veronica americana   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)

Veronica americana

 

COMMON NAME:
American Speedwell, Brooklime


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image of Veronica americana, American Speedwell, Brooklime

Margaret Armstrong, Field Book Of Western Wild Flowers    maa_veronica_americana

        

image of Veronica americana, American Speedwell, Brooklime

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_veam2_001_lvd

        

image of Veronica americana, American Speedwell, Brooklime

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide    pnd_veam2_003_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Veronica americana   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Veronica americana   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Veronica americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Veronica americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH Field Manual of Michigan Flora (Voss & Reznicek, 2012)
Veronica beccabunga var. americana

SYNONYMOUS WITH VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-20-009:
Veronica americana   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Veronica americana

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3349

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: bogs, marshes, streamsides, per Weakley's Flora

Native to North Carolina

Rare in NC

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (upper bracteal leaves opposite as well)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Pale lavender-blue
Bilaterally symmetrical
4 sepals
4-lobed rotate corolla
2 well exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in axillary racemes

FRUIT:
Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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