Veronica agrestis L.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Scrophulariaceae

• Scientific Name

  Veronica agrestis L.

• Description

  Species Description - Prostrate or ascending annual 1–3 dm; lvs oblong to commonly ovate or even rotund, 1–2 cm, obtuse, crenately serrate, broadly obtuse to rounded or truncate at base, short- petiolate; pedicels 6–10 mm, elongating to 15 mm in fr; sep ovate or lance-ovate, 3.5–5 mm at anthesis, minutely ciliate, in fr somewhat longer and 3-nerved; fls usually whitish, 4–8 mm wide; style ca 1 mm, not exceeding the sinus of the fr; fr evidently reticulate-veiny, sparsely glandular-pubescent, 4–6 × 3–4 mm, its lobes parallel, the sinus narrow, extending ca one-third of the way to the base; 2n=28. Native of Eurasia, now established in fields, lawns, and roadsides from Nf. and N. Engl. to N.Y. and Pa., w. to Mich.

• Common Names

  field speedwell