Sprawling annual; stems to c. 20 cm long; hairs scattered on branches and leaves. Leaves very broad-ovate 5–20 mm long and wide, apex very broad-obtuse, base truncate to subcordate, margins with 1–3 pairs of broad rounded teeth; petiole mostly 5–18 mm long. Flowers solitary in the axils of leaf-like bracts; pedicels 5–20 mm long. Calyx-lobes 3.5–6.5 mm long, 2.3–4 mm wide in fruit, ciliate; corolla c. 2.5 mm long, blue or lilac. Capsule deeply 4-lobed or c. globose, c. 4 mm diam., not compressed, glabrous; style 0.5–0.8 mm long. Flowers mostly spring.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, Gold, CVU, HSF. Also naturalised SA, NSW, Tas. Native to Europe. An uncommon weed of gardens and crops, recorded in Victoria from Castlemaine, Kyneton, Lara, Melbourne, Mornington and Stradbroke districts.
Source:
Briggs, B.G.; Barker, W.R. (1999). Veronica. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 509–516. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
