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Crested Field-speedwell
Veronica crista-galli
Veronica crista-galli, the crested field-speedwell, is an annual flower in the family Plantaginaceae native from Iran north to the North Caucasus.
From the article Veronica crista-galli on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
An annual, bright blue flowered speedwell with a straggling habit to 50 cm (20 in), superficially resembling Veronica persica, with solitary flowers emerging from the stem with the leaf stalks, but its leaves have more numerous veins, flowers are shorter-stalked and smaller (generally smaller than the calyx it sits within), of a fairly uniform blue, and the calyx itself is formed of two, lobe-tipped parts, instead of the usual four unlobed parts; whilst the fruit when it matures is also concealed within the calyx rather than obvious, and has two parallel lobes, not divergent. Photographic examples can be seen on iNaturalist.
Range & habitat
Its native range is Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, and is introduced in the British Isles where it inhabits cultivated and rough ground and waste places.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Veronica crista-galli in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 336252.