Veronica anagalloides, Guss.

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 : 248

38. V. anagalloides Guss. , Pl. Rar. 5 (1826)

(inch V. poljensis Murb. ).

Annual. Stem (5-)20-30 cm, erect, simple or with long branches from the base, usually glabrous. Leaves 15-40 mm, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, sessile, subentire or serrate, glabrous. Racemes glabrous or glandular-pubescent, up to 6 times as long as subtending leaves; pedicels 3-7 mm, erectopatent. Calyx-segments erect in fruit; corolla 3-5 mm in diameter, lilac or whitish. Capsule 2-5-3 - 5 x 2-2- 5 mm, elliptical, not emarginate; style c. 1 - 5 mm. 2/z= 18 + O-2 B. Ditches, streamsides and wet mud. S., C. & E. Europe, northwards to Czechoslovakia and S. C. Russia. Al Au BI Bu Co Cz Ga Ge Gr Hs Hu It Ju?Lu Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) Sa Si.