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(Last Modified On 8/16/2013)
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(Last Modified On 8/16/2013)
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Species
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Veronica polita Fries
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PlaceOfPublication
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Novit. Fl. Suec. 1. 1819.
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Note
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TYPE: Sweden, Fries (PUPS, not seen).
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Description
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Prostrate or occasionally ascending annual herbs, branching at the base, root- ing at the lower nodes, the stems drying angled, sparingly pilose. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate or elliptical, apically obtuse, basally truncate, conspicuously dentate in the upper 2/3, mostly 10-18 mm long, the veins ca. 5, subdigitate, strongly ascending; petiole to 8 mm long, about ?/2 as long as the leaves. Inflorescences solitary flowers in leaf axils near the branch apices; pedicels slender, exceeding the leaves, pilose; bracts not differentiated. Flowers with the calyx divided to the base, the lobes oblong to lanceolate, pubescent, ca. 4 mm long; corolla rotate campanulate, blue with a conspicuous white eye and lines to the center; stamens 2, the filaments stiff, the anthers bluish, the style stiff, the stigma punctiform. Capsule evenly pubescent overall, the carpels plump, ca. 3 mm long.
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Habit
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herbs
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Distribution
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Veronica polita is native to Europe and the Mediterranean region but is now widely naturalized in the New World.
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Note
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It occurs in cultivated fields and lawns. In Panama it is known only from upland Chiriqui.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Cerro Punta, 6000 ft, Tyson 7122 (PMA).
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