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Photographer: Kitty Kohout
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Family Scrophulariaceae
Veronica arvensis L.
corn speedwell
Veronica: named after Saint Veronica, the woman who gave Jesus a cloth to wipe his face while on the way to Calvary, and so named because the markings on some species supposedly resemble those on her sacred handkerchief
arvensis: of planted fields
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| Status: | Introduced - naturalized |
| Plant: | erect, annual, 1"-12" tall forb, finely hairy above |
| Flower: | purple to blue, 4-parted, 1/8" wide, lobes longer than the tube; inflorescence a terminal cluster of mostly stalkless flowers; blooms April-Aug. |
| Fruit: | capsule margins with tiny hairs |
| Leaf: | opposite except alternate in the inflorescence, oval to elliptical, 1-2 times as long as wide, rounded teeth |
| Habitat: | disturbed sites |
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