Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Veronica serpyllifolia
Common name
Thyme Speedwell
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Alpine grassland, disturbed sites, wet seepage areas, and on the margins of lakes, streams, and swamps. Kosciuszko National Park and west towards Albury. Occasionally eleswhere.
Notes
Introduced perennial herb, flowering stems to 0.25 m high, often prostrate and rooting at the nodes. Stems more or less hairy and sticky. Leaves opposite each other (rarely in whorls of 3), mostly 0.4–1.6 cm long, 2–11 mm wide, tips blunt, bases rounded, margins with minute scallops, surfaces hairless. Leaf-like bracts often alternating up the stems. Flowers about 5-6 mm in diameter, 2–4.5 mm long, with a short tube about 1 mm long, and 4 spreading lobes, blue or pale mauve to violet, occasionally almost white, with darker veins. Stamens 2. Flowers single in the axils of leaf-like bracts, forming elongated clusters. Flowering: spring–summer.
Uncertain Status (native or naturalised) in Vic.
Family was Scrophulariacae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~serpyllifolia (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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