Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Veronica notabilis
Forest speedwell
Plantaginaceae
Rainforest and wet forest. Widespread. Not on the Western Slopes.
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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