VERONICAL.SPEEDWELL

VERONICAL. - SPEEDWELL

Scientific Description:

Perennials (sometimes suffruticose) or annuals. Leaves opposite, undivided or divided; bracts usually alternate throughout. Flowers in 1–many terminal or axillary racemes or spikes, or, in some annual species, apparently solitary in alternate leaf axils (i.e. bracts leaf-like). Calyx divided ± to base, lobes 4 or 5, 2 lower ones ± larger than 2 upper, uppermost always much smaller or absent altogether. Corolla rotate, slightly zygomorphic, bluish, purple, reddish or white; tube broader than long, often very short; limb longer than tube, with 4 ± unequal lobes. Stamens 2. Fruit a bilocular, loculicidal and often also septicidal capsule, often ± flattened transversely to septum, apex usually emarginate or even bi-lobed; style usually persistent but not elongating in fruit. Seeds numerous or few, flat or excavate (cup-or boat-shaped), often with a ± distinct chalazal podium.

Reference:

Fischer MA (1978). Veronica L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 689.

Public Description:

Veronica, commonly known as “speedwell”, “bird’s eye” or “gypsyweed”, is mostly native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere, and also some species are found in the Southern Hemisphere. There are approximately 198 species in the world and 87 species (117 taxa) in Türkiye. They are herbaceous annual or perennial flowering plants, and also shrubs. Flowers are bluish, purple, reddish or white colors.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_(plant) /,Accessed date: 23.09.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Plantaginaceae/Veronica/ /,Accessed date: 23.09.2016.

Güner ED (2012). Veronica L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 677–684.