Veronica beccabunga

Photo © Carl Farmer
(14 Sep 2003 Longniddry, E Lothian)

Occasional in burns or marshy ground with limy water, usually near the sea.

Height c 20-35 cm. Flower c 6-9 mm across.

Skye ID: Hairless. Flowers in spikes of 10-30, arising from each of an opposite pair of leaf-axils, main stem not terminating in flower-spike. Leaves rounded at tip, not tapering to an acute point.

Other features: A somewhat fleshy plant, creeping and rooting in the water or mud, then ascending. Flowers normally deep blue with white eye.

Photo © Carl Farmer (14 Sep 2003 Longniddry, E Lothian)		Photo © Carl Farmer (14 Sep 2003 Longniddry, E Lothian)
		Shoots with pale leaves and flowers sometimes grow among normal ones

Photo © Carl Farmer (14 Sep 2003 Longniddry, E Lothian)		Photo © Carl Farmer (16 Sep 2003 Musselburgh)
Above: Dense stands of the shoots cover areas of water or mud to the exclusion of other vegetation Right: Fruit capsules, notched at tip, shorter than calyx		Photo © Carl Farmer (16 Sep 2003 Musselburgh)

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