Veronica pectinata, 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 : 246

20. V. pectinata L. , Mantissa 24 (1767).

Puberulent throughout. Stems 20-50 cm, decumbent. Leaves 10-25 x 4-15 mm, broadly elliptical to oblong, shortly petiolate, incise-serrate. Racemes up to 20 cm, glandular, often longer than the leafy stems, rather dense even in fruit, often with a few small leaves below the lowest flowers; lower bracts often pinnatifid; pedicels 2-5 mm. Calyx 4-5 mm; segments 4, linear, villous, subequal. Corolla 10-12 mm in diameter, blue. Capsule 5-6 x 4-5-5 mm, obcordate, pubescent. E. part o f Balkan peninsula. Bu Tu. (Anatolia.) Not recently recorded from Europe.