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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
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Vegetative key to families
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Veronica L.
Herbs, sometimes rooting at the nodes
Veronica
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Leaves less than 25 mm long. Stems creeping and rooting at the nodes or, if erect, then up to 30 cm high
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Leaves coarsely
serrate
,
crenate
or
crenate
-
dentate
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Flowers nearly
sessile
in terminal racemes.
Calyx
2–3 mm long when in flower.
Corolla
minute
. Leaves
ovate
,
cordate
,
crenate
-
dentate
, 5–8 mm long. Widespread. Weed of cultivation, waste places and grasslands. Introd. from Europe. Fl. spring–summer
Veronica arvensis
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Flowers in
axillary
racemes or solitary in the axils of the upper leaves