Veronica baumgartenii, Roemer & Schultes

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 247

26. V. baumgartenii Roemer & Schultes , Syst. Veg. 1: 100 (1817).

Stems 4-12 cm, ascending, pubescent above. Leaves 8-1 8x3-8 mm, serrate to subentire, glabrous, subsessile, the lower ovate, the upper elliptic-oblong. Racemes 1-4, opposite, short, corymbose; pedicels up to 15 mm, pubescent, greatly exceeding the bracts. Calyx 2-5-3 mm; segments 4, ellipticoblong, subequal. Corolla c. 9 mm in diameter, blue. Capsule 5 x 3 mm, elliptical, deeply emarginate, glabrous. Mountain rocks and alpine pastures. • E. & S. Carpathians; mountains o f E. Jugoslavia and N. Bulgaria. Bu Ju Rm Rs (W).