Ear Veronique

The speedwell out of ear ( Veronica spicata L.) is a small plant belonging to the kind Veronica and to the family of the Plantaginacées according to classification APG II (the speedwells were classified before in the Scrophulariacées). She pushes in the rather dry places and limestones, often in mountain, and is recognized with its ears blue-purple carrying of many flowers.

Description

Ecology and habitat

long-lived Plant pushing especially in mountain, more rarely at low altitude (100 to 2050 meters). In France, one especially meets it in the the Alps and the the Pyrenees. Rare elsewhere, it is protected in Alsace, Auvergne, Basse-Normandie and the Limousin. It also pushes in Great Britain, Germany and Scandinavia, and is frequently planted in the gardens. Clear preference for the grounds limestones and dry (meadows, edge of the forests, slopes rock). Flowering from July to October-November.

General and vegetative morphology

Herbaceous plant rather low, hairy, forming tufts often papering, with crawling stock and set up stem. Sheet S sessile or with very short petiole, opposed, ovals with lancéolées, blunted teeth (the higher sheets are often whole).

Floral morphology

Fleur S hermaphrodites grouped into long ear S very dense. Short chalice with four sepals. Corolla blue-purple with long tube, four petals having almost the appearance of two lips. Two cheesecloth S and a style largely exceeding the corolla. Pollination entomogame.

Fruit and seeds

The Fruit is a indented capsule globulous, more or less hairy. Dissemination épizoochore.

References

Flora of Hautes-Alpes

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