Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Veronica persica
Common name
Creeping speedwell
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Pasture, gardens, and disturbed sites. Widespread, mostly ACT and Sydney area.
Notes
Introduced herb to about 0.3 m high or sprawling, sometimes rooting from the lower nodes. Hairy or with scattered long soft hairs. Leaves opposite each other, 0.4–2.5 cm long, 3–23 mm wide, bases wedge-shaped to cordate, margins coarsely toothed, tips blunt to rounded. Flowers blue or bluish white to pinkish, often with dark veins, 2–6 mm long, about 6 mm in diameter, with a bell-shaped tube and 4 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers single. Flowering: winter–summer.
Family was Scrophulariaceae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~persica (accessed 8 February, 2021)
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