WAYSIDE SPEEDWELL
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Veronica polita Fr.
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| Riley County, Kansas |
| Annual |
| Height: Prostrate or ascending |
| Family: Plantaginaceae - Plantain Family |
| Flowering Period: April, May, June |
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| Stems: | | Usually branched from base, 2 to 12 inches long; plants pubescent. | | Leaves: | | Lower opposite, upper alternate; petiole present; blade broadly ovate to nearly round, .16 to .6 inch long, .12 to .43 inch wide, margins deeply crenate, tip blunt to rounded. | | Inflorescences: | | Racemes, terminal. | | Flowers: | | Pedicels .2 to .6 inch long; calyx 4-lobed, .08 to .16 inch, lobes ovate; corolla blue or white with blue lines, 4-lobed, .12 to .16 inch; stamens 2, equal, exserted. | | Fruits: | | Capsules symmetric, strongly compressed, .12 to .16 inch long, .16 to .2 inch wide; seeds pale yellow, ovate, 1.3--1.7 mm. | | Habitat: | | Lawns, fields, roadsides, waste ground. | | Distribution: | | Statewide | | Origin: | | Introduced | | Comments: | | Named for St. Veronica and "smoothed". |
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