Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Veronica brownii

Flowering stem. Austrtalian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems. Austrtalian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

A Speedwell

Family

Plantaginaceae

Where found

Forest. Mainly Blue Mountains Naional Park and Kanangra-Boyd National Park. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Perennial herb, rooting at the nodes. Flowering stems to 0.25 m high. Arching or prostrate stolons to 50 cm or more long. Flowering stems hairy with fine short rigid hairs less than 0.4 mm long, in two narrow longitudinal bands, otherwise hairless. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 0.8–2 cm long, 2.5–15 mm wide, margins with 2–5 pairs of pointed teeth, tips pointed. Flowers pale lilac, 3.5–4 mm long, with a short tube and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers in 3–15-flowered clusters mostly 3.5–12 cm long. Flowering: spring–summer.

Family was Scrophulariaceae. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~brownii (accessed 10 February, 2021)