Species name :

Veronica persica Poiret
Published in Poiret in Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot. 8: 542 (1808)

Synonyms :

Basionym or principal synonym: No Main Synonyms

Full list of synonyms : [ Euro+Med ]   [ PlantList ]   [ IPNI ]   [ Catalogue of Life ]

Plant Family :

Plantaginaceae The Plantain Family 33 Plantaginaceae species recorded from Malta.
Juss.

English name(s) :

Common Field Speedwell, Persian Speedwell

Maltese name(s) :

Maltese name not known

Status for Malta :

Casual Alien

Frequency :

Data not available - casual in the wild as a garden/field escape

Growth form :

Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: THEROPHYTE (Annuals)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon

Legal Protection [link]:

Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006)

Red List (1989) :

Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands

Flowering Time :

Feb-Apr

Colour of Flowers:

Blue or Violet

Habitat in Europe:

Cultivated ground.

Preferred habitat in Malta:

Data will be available in the next update of this website.

Botanical Description:

Pubescent. Stems (5)10-60 cm, procumbent. Leaves 5-25 mm, shortly petiolate, broadly ovate with more or less truncate base, mostly alternate but the lowest opposite. Flowers solitary in leaf-axils; pedicels 5-30 mm, recurved in fruit and much exceeding the subtending leaf. Calyx-segments (4-)6-7 mm, ovate-lanceolate, not or only slightly overlapping at base; corolla 8-12 mm in diameter, blue. Capsule 4-5 × 7-10 mm, 2-lobed, with very divergent lobes and wide, shallow sinus, strongly keeled, with eglandular hairs on sides and long glandular hairs on keel; style 2•5-3 mm, much exceeding the sinus. Seeds c. 1•75 × 1•25 mm, broadly elliptical, concave on one face.

Chromosome number:

2n=28

Distributional range:

Naturalized almost throughout Europe.

Native region outside Europe:

(S.W. Asia.)

Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):

Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993):

Introduced in  All except Faroe Islands, Russia and former USSR, Svalbard archipelago

Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) - Country codes

AE(G) Ag Ar Bl(M) By Cs Cy Eg Es Hs(S) Ir Jo La Le Lt Ma Mo Rf(C E K N NW S) Si(S) Sr Tu(A) [Au(A) dAz Az(F G J L M P S T) Ca(C G T) Co Ct Fe Ga(F) Ge Hb(E) He Is dLu Md(M) Po Rm Sk Sl Su Uk]