Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Veronica lithophila

Common name

A Speedwell

Family

Plantaginaceae

Where found

Cliffs or rock exposures, in pockets of soil. Blue Mountains and Kanangra Boyd National Parks.

Notes

Trailing perennial herb, prostrate and rooting at the nodes, with stems to 50 cm long. Flowering stems to 0.15 m or more high, with short curved hairs, in longitudinal bands, or densely covering the stem. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 1.2–2.5 cm long, 8–15 mm wide, mostly hairless, margins with 2–9 pairs of shallow pointed teeth. Flowers pale violet with darker veins, 6–7 mm long, with a short tube and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers in 3–18-flowered clusters. Flowering: spring–summer.

Family was Scrophulariaceae. 

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