Veronica polita, Fries

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

53. V. polita Fries , Nov. Fl. Suec. 63 (1819)

( V. didyma auct., vix Ten.).

Like 52 but leaves more regularly crenate-serrate, the lower often wider than long; calyx-segments broadly ovate, often overlapping near base; corolla blue; capsule with long glandular hairs and short, crispate eglandular hairs; style c. 1-5 mm, distinctly exceeding the wide sinus. 2« =14, 18. Cultivated ground. M ost o f Europe except the Arctic, but probably not native in the north-east. All except Az Fa Is Sb.