Veronica americana Schwein.
 
FamilyScrophulariaceae — APG family: Plantaginaceae
SynonymsVeronica beccabunga var. americana Raf.
Common namebrooklime
DescriptionGlabrous; stem ascending from decumbent, rhizomatose base, more or less suc- culent; leaves of flowering stem lanceolate to narrowly ovate, serrate-dentate, acute, distinctly petiolated; racemes lax, axillary; corolla violet to lilac; capsule orbicular.
EcologyAlong streams. Described from Canada to Virginia and Kentucky.
Hultén's Flora About

This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.