Veronique pimpernel of water

The speedwell pimpernel of water , or watery pimpernel ( Veronica anagallis-aquatica L.) is a long-lived Plante herbaceous pushing in the wet places, with small blue or mauve Fleur S. She belongs to the kind Veronica and with the family as of the speedwells were classified before in the family of the Scrophulariaceae , or of the Plantaginaceae , subfamily of the Veronicoideae , according to phylogenetic classification APG II.

Description

Ecology and habitat

Very widespread plant in all the Western Europe. It is not strictly speaking watery, but always pushes in the vicinity immediate of the Eau (edge of the Rivière S and the brooks, softened Lac S, places). One can meet it in Montagne, where its flowering is late, up to approximately 1500 meters. Flowering of June to September.

General and vegetative morphology

Hardy perennial of intermediate size, glabrous, ramified often enough, with set up stem, quadrangular and hollow. Opposite, rather long and narrow sheets green tender, ovals with lancéolées, slightly toothed, the higher engainant the stem.

Floral morphology

Inflorescence in racème (bunch) with long stalk. Flowers very small hermaphrodites (approximately 5 cm), with 4 blue petals or mauves carrying at their base of the lines violets. Chalice with four sepals slightly smaller than the petals. Pollination can be done by the insects (flies), but the plant is also autogame.

Fruit and seeds

The Fruit is a more or less circular glabrous small capsule, slightly indented.

Culinary use

Sheets and stems can be used raw out of salad or cooked. They can be contaminated by the Liver fluke and thus does not have to be consumed raw in the event of risk (close pastures)

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