Veronica agrestis, 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 : 249

52. V. agrestis L. , Sp. Pl. 13 (1753).

Pubescent annual. Stems 5-30 cm, procumbent or decumbent. Leaves 5-15 mm, longer than wide, shortly petiolate, ovate with more or less truncate base, crenate or crenate-serrate, mostly alternate but the lowest opposite. Flowers solitary in leaf-axils; pedicels 5-15 mm, usually recurved in fruit. Calyx-segments 3-6 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, not overlapping at base; corolla 3-6 mm in diameter, usually whitish with blue or pink upper lobe. Capsule 3^1 x 4-6 mm, 2-lobed with parallel lobes and deep, narrow sinus, not or slightly keeled, sparsely glandularhirsute; style c. 1 mm, not exceeding the sinus. Seeds c. 1-5 x 1-25 mm, broadly elliptical, concave on one face. 2/z = 28. Cultivated ground; somewhat calcifuge. M ost o f Europe except the extreme north and parts o f the south-east. All except BI Fa Is Rs (N, K) Sb Tu.