NameThatPlant.net: Veronica anagallis-aquatica

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

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

Read more about Water Speedwell at Vascular Plants of North Carolina.

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Veronica anagallis-aquatica FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Veronica anagallis-aquatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Veronica anagallis-aquatica

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-20-008:

Veronica anagallis-aquatica FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

COMMON NAME:
Water Speedwell, Brook Pimpernel

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image of Veronica anagallis-aquatica, Water Speedwell, Brook Pimpernel

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_vean2_001_lvd

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / USDA Wetland flora: Field office illustrated guide pnd_vean2_006_lvd

Bruce A. Sorrie bas_v_anagallis_aquatica1

April Pima County AZ

Leaves clasping. Racemes with 20-65 flowers, per Weakley's Flora (2015).

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

INCLUDED WITHIN PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Veronica anagallis-aquatica FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

INCLUDED WITHIN Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Veronica anagallis-aquatica

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Veronica anagallis-aquatica

INCLUDED WITHIN VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 166-20-008:
Veronica anagallis-aquatica FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

3350

Forb
Perennial

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

Native to North Carolina? or possibly introduced

Rare in NC

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

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

TO LEARN MORE about this plant, look it up in a good book!

Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998) p158

"Invasive exotics share several strong traits: fit well within the environment, grow rapidly, mature to produce flowers and seed at an early age, produce great quantities of seed, effectively disperse their seed (via birds, etc.), rampantly spread vegetatively, have no major pest of disease problems. Horticulturally, some of these characteristics are considered quite desirable. Thus there is the absurd irony of various governmental and environmental groups trying hard to control and eradicate in the wild some of the very same species being sold to gardeners all over the US...." — Margie Hunter, Gardening with the Native Plants of Tennessee

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