| Veronica agrestis L., it is a procumbent or decumbent, pubescent annual, 5-30 cm tall. Leaves ovate with ± truncate base, crenate or crenate-serrate, 5-15 mm long, shortly petiolate, mostly alternate but the lowest opposite. Flowers solitary axillary, usually whitish; pedicel 5-15 mm long, usually recurved in fruit. Calyx ovate to ovate-lanceolate, somewhat obtuse, not overlapping at the base. Corolla 1-6 mm in diameter, usually with blue or pink upper lobe. Capsule 2-lobed with parallel lobes and a distinct narrow sinus, not or slightly keeled, sparsely glandular-hirsute, 1-4 x 4-6 mm; style c. 1mm long, not, exceeding the sinus. Seeds many broadly elliptical concave on one side 1.5 x 1.25 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Jun, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: ES+MED, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Europe to Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information:https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:326368-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/326368-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000419706, https://www.gbif.org/species/3172082, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/1220.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_veroniqueagreste.php, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/veronica/agrestis/, https://www.maltawildplants.com/PLNT/Veronica_agrestis.php, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_agrestis |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Nafusa |
| Reported from Gharian by Pampanini |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1982) Flora of Libya, Scrophulariaceae Vol. (88) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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