Veronica glauca, Sibth. & Sm.

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

44. V. glauca Sibth. & Sm. , Fl. Graec. Prodr. 1: 9 (1806)

(incl. V. chaubardii Boiss. & Reuter , V. peloponnesiaca Boiss. & Orph. ).

Stem 3-20(-35) cm, erect, simple or with decumbent to ascending branches near the base, usually crispate-pubescent and sometimes also with long, straight hairs, especially in inflorescence. Leaves 3—10(—18) mm, shortly petiolate, triangular-ovate, shallowly lobed to crenate-serrate, more or less pubescent. Flowers in racemes; pedicels very slender, more or less patent (sometimes recurved), much longer than bracts and at least 4 times as long as calyx. Calyx-segments 3-6(-7) mm, lanceolate, often unequal; corolla (7-) 10-15 mm in diameter, deep blue. Capsule 3-4 x 4-5 mm, obovoid to subglobose, more or less inflated, emarginate to shallowly 2-lobed, usually glabrous; style 3-4 mm. Seeds 1- 5-2 x 1-1-5 mm, suborbicular or broadly elliptical, cup-shaped. Cultivated ground and dry grassland. • 5. part o f Balkan peninsula. Al?Cr Gr.

Variable in hairiness, capsule-shape and angle of pedicels. V. chaubardii was described as having the capsule 2-lobed almost to the middle, but in type-material it is only shallowly 2-lobed.