Common name:
Marsh speedwell
Family:
Scientific name:
Veronica scutellata
Main flower color:
Range:
Most regions of the British Isles
Height:
Up to 30 cm - both trailing and upright stems
Habitat:
Damp ground, pond margins, acid bogs
Flowers:
Four petals, shallowly cup-shaped or all in the plane, coloured white or very pale pink, crossed by a few darker pink veins, and four ovate green sepals. Each flower is subtended by a linear bract. Flowers form in short spikes, from the leaf nodes; just one per node
Leaves:
Hairless, opposite, linear to narrowly lanceolate, up to 4 cm long, sometimes lined with a few small teeth
Season:
June to August
Rarity:
★★★★★
