Pink Water-speedwell - Veronica catenata
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Pink Water-speedwell - Veronica catenata | dylan | North Somerset | 28 Oct 2022, 11:04 a.m. | 17 Sep 2022, 2:19 p.m. | |
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Pink Water-speedwell - Veronica catenata | dylan | North Somerset | 28 Oct 2022, 11:04 a.m. | 17 Sep 2022, 2:19 p.m. | |
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Pink Water-speedwell - Veronica catenata | dylan | North Somerset | 28 Oct 2022, 11:16 a.m. | 17 Sep 2022, 1:25 p.m. |
Species Description
Widespread and locally common in the Southern half of the UK, becoming scarce in the North. Habitat includes: Places with shallow water and muddy edges such as rivers, streams, ditches, dykes, rhynes, ponds, lakes, dune-slacks, clay-, gravel- and chalk-pits etc. Growing habit: Annual to Perennial. Height: Up to 50 cm. Flowers: June to September.
Stace 4:
Veronica catenata Pennell - Pink Water-speedwell.
Differs from V. anagallis-aquatica in leaves all narrow and sessile; pedicels usually shorter than bracts at flowering; 2n=36. Native; mostly in open muddy places with little or no flowing water; similar distribution to V. anagallis-aquatica but rarer in Scotland.
Key:
- Plants normally fully fertile, with racemes ceasing growth as fruits ripen
- Corolla usually pinkish; pedicels patent in fruit; capsule wider than long, deeply notched at apex