Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Veronica arvensis
Common name
Wall speedwell
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Woodland, lawns, gardens and disturbed areas. Widespread.
Notes
Introduced annual herb to 0.10 m high. Stems hairy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.3–1.8 cm long, 2–14 mm wide, margins bluntly toothed or scalloped, tips blunt, bases squared off to cordate. Flowers blue, mauve, or pinkish, with a short tube 1–2 mm long, and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers appearing single. Flowers spring and summer.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~arvensis (accessed 10 February, 2021)
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