Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Veronica notabilis
Common name
Forest speedwell
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Rainforest and wet forest. Widespread. Not on the Western Slopes.
Notes
Perennial herb, rooting at the nodes. Flowering stems to 0.4 m high, with long, soft, spreading or curved hairs. Leaves opposite each other, mostly 3.5–6 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, margins with 5–12 pairs of teeth, bases wedge-shaped, tips pointed. Flowers lavender or white with darker veins, 4–8 mm long, with a short tube and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers in elongated 10–20-flowered clusters 5–17.5 cm long. Flowers spring and summer.
Hybridises with Veronica grosseserrata where they grow together.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~notabilis (accessed 10 February, 2021)
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