Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Veronica peregrina subsp. xalapensis

Flower and leaves. © Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany. Photographer B. Steury

Stems with seed cases. Photographer JC Schou, Norway

Line drawings. h. flowering stems; seed case; leaf. S Clark, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Wandering Speedwell

Family

Plantaginaceae

Where found

Pastures, disturbed sites, flood plains, and swampy areas. Few records in the area covered by this key. Mainly downstream from Albury.

Notes

Introduced annual herb to about 0.2 m high, often rooting from the lower nodes, hairy to sparsely hairy with glandular hairs. Leaves opposite each other, connected to each other by a ridge, mostly 0.3–2.2 cm long, 0.5–5 mm wide, sticky hairy, margins entire or finely toothed, tips blunt, bases narrowing gradually. Flowers pale lavender or white, about 1.5 mm long, with a short tube and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers single. Flowering: spring.

Subspecies not recognised in NSW.

Family was Scrophulariaceae. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~peregrina (accessed 3 May 2021)