Veronica crista-galli, the crested field-speedwell, is an annual flower in the family Plantaginaceae native from Iran north to the North Caucasus.[1]
| Veronica crista-galli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Veronica |
| Species: | V. crista-galli
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| Binomial name | |
| Veronica crista-galli | |
Description
editAn annual, bright blue flowered speedwell with a straggling habit (to 50 cm), superficially resembling, Veronica persica, with solitary flowers emerging from the stem with the leaf stalks, but its leaves have more numerous veins, flowers are shorter-stalked and smaller (generally smaller than the calyx it sits within), of a fairly uniform blue, and the calyx itself is formed of two, lobe-tipped parts, instead of the usual four unlobed parts; whilst the fruit when it matures is also concealed within the calyx rather than obvious, and has two parallel lobes, not divergent. [2]
Photographic examples can be seen on iNaturalist.
Distribution and habitat
editIts native range is Iran, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, and is introduced in the British Isles [1] where it inhabits cultivated and rough ground and waste places.[2]