Veronica austriaca subsp. austriaca

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 : 245

(d) Subsp. austriaca

( subsp. jacquinii (Baumg.) J. Maly ; incl. subsp. orbiculata (A. Kerner) K. Maly );

Stems 25-50 cm, erect or ascending. Leaves usually blackening on drying, linear-lanceolate to suborbicular or deflate in outline, usually 1- or 2-pinnatisect with linear segments, but the uppermost and lowermost sometimes dentate to pinnatifid. Racemes usually long. Calyx and capsule hairy or glabrous. 2/7 = 48. E., E.C. & S.E. Europe, extending westwards to N. Italy.