Veronica L. >
Herbs, sometimes rooting at the nodes Veronica
Leaves mostly more than 30 mm long, usually more than 10 mm wide. Stems ascending usually more than 30 cm high from creeping or decumbent stolons. Flowers usually numerous, in axillary racemes
Leaves petiolate, lanceolate to narrow-ovate, or triangular, coarsely serrate, acute. Stems solid. Racemes up to 17 cm long with up to 20 flowers
Leaf bases truncate. Stems with mostly short rigid hairs. Corolla 3–8 mm long, white becoming mauve with age. Calyx lobes usually finely ciliate on margins and apex. In north of region. WSF and RF. Fl. spring–autumn Veronica grosseserrata