Veronica arenaria
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| Veronica arenaria | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Veronica |
| Species: | V. arenaria |
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| Veronica arenaria | |
Veronica arenaria is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is a small, clumping shrub with blue flowers. It grows in New South Wales and Queensland in Australia.
Veronica arenaria is a small, softly woody herb with upright stems 3–100 cm (1.2–39.4 in) high from the rootstock with short, stiff curved hairs. Leaves linear, sessile, margins entire or with occasional hairs or irregular lobes, pointed, 2–5.5 cm (0.79–2.17 in) long, 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide, smooth and a few hairs on the margins. Violet blue flowers are borne in racemes 20–35 cm (7.9–13.8 in) long in clusters of 50-100, corolla 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long, calyx lobes 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long and 1–1.5 mm (0.039–0.059 in) wide. Flowering occurs from September to May and the fruit is a broad egg-shaped capsule, 3.5–6 mm (0.14–0.24 in) long, 2.5–3.5 mm (0.098–0.138 in) wide, notched, shiny and short hairs on upper margin.[2][3]