OF THE CAROLINAS & GEORGIA

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Lamiids: Lamiales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Veronica scutellata   FAMILY Plantaginaceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Veronica scutellata   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Veronica scutellata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America

Veronica scutellata

 

COMMON NAME:
Marsh Speedwell, Narrowleaf Speedwell


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image of Veronica scutellata, Marsh Speedwell, Narrowleaf Speedwell

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_vesc2_001_lvd

        

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Veronica scutellata   FAMILY Plantaginaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Veronica scutellata   FAMILY Scrophulariaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Veronica scutellata

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America
Veronica scutellata

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

3351

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: marshes, swamps, per Weakley's Flora

Native: north of the Carolinas & Georgia

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LEAVES:
Simple
Opposite (upper bracteal leaves opposite as well)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Bilaterally symmetrical
4 sepals
4-lobed rotate corolla
2 well exserted stamens
Superior ovary
Bisexual

Flowers in axillary racemes

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

 

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