Veronica hederifolia, L.

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 : 250

57. V. hederifolia L. , Sp. Pl. 13 (1753) .

Pubescent. Stems 10-60 cm, procumbent. Leaves 5-15 mm, petiolate, suborbicular in outline, 3- to 7-lobed with large terminal lobe, mostly alternate, but the lowest opposite. Flowers solitary in leaf-axils; pedicels not or scarcely exceeding leaves. Calyx-segments 4-5 mm, cordate-ovate, acute, strongly ciliate, erect or suberect in fruit. Corolla 4-9 mm in diameter, blue or lilac. Capsule c. 4 x 4 mm, subglobose, shallowly 4-lobed, glabrous; style 0-3-1-1 mm. Seeds c. 2-5 x 2-25 mm, suborbicular, cup-shaped. M ost o f Europe except the Arctic, but doubtfully native in much o f the north and north-east. All except Az?Cr Fa Is Rs (N) Sb.

1 Pedicels not more than 2j times as long as calyx in fruit

2 Middle lobe of leaf wider than long; pedicels usually glabrous except for an adaxial row of hairs (a) subsp. triloba 2 Middle lobe of leaf longer than wide; pedicels equally hairy

all round (b) subsp. sibthorpioides 1 Pedicels (2—)3—7 times as long as calyx in fruit

3 Middle lobe of leaf wider than long; style 0-7-1 mm

(d) subsp. hederifolia 3 Middle lobe of leaf longer than wide; style less than 0-5 mm

(c) subsp. iucorum