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Yavapai County Native & Naturalized Plants

Veronica peregrina - neckweed

Other Common Names: speedwell, necklace weed, necklaceweed, purslane speedwell
Plant Form: Forb or Subshrub

Family: Scrophulariaceae


   
 
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Forb Plant Description

Origin: Native   Life Cycle: Annual
General Desc: Short taproot; stems simple or branched, erect, ascending; herbage glandular and hairy, leaves and bracts often smooth; plant can be without hairs; whitish or pink small flowers in terminal and a few axillary elongated clusters.
Identification notes: Stems erect or ascending; leaves 3 to 10 times as long as wide, margins smooth or toothed toward tips; flowers white or pale pink, short- stemmed in elongated terminal clusters, sometimes also in 1 to 4 axillary clusters or may appear as solitary.
Height: 6 to 12 inches


Habitat

Habitat Description: Usually along streams and washes, cultivated fields.
Plant Communities: Riparian, Disturbed Areas
Elevation: Below 10000 feet


Flower Characteristics

Color: Whitish to pink     Shape: Regular in elongated clusters     Tubular: N     Flowering Period: Mar - Sep
Description: Bracts below small whitish to pink flowers leaf-like; flowers short-stemmed in terminal or a few axillary elongated clusters of 5 to 40 flowers; flowers mostly solitary in leaf axils.


Leaf and Stem Characteristics

Leaf Color: Green     Leaf Type: Simple     Leaf Shape: Narrow     Leaf Margin: Toothed     Leaf Attachment: Alternate     Leaves Clasp: N
Hairs: Leaves and stems     Spines: N
Leaf Description: Leaf blades narrowly oblong, wider at base; 3 to 10 times as long as wide, base wedge-shaped, margins smooth or toothed towards tip, tip pointed, surfaces smooth to densely glandular-hairy.


Fruit and Seed Characteristics

Fruit Type: Capsule
Fruit Notes: Capsules strongly compressed in cross section, broadly notched at the tip, broader at attachment end.
Seed Notes: Seeds number 2 to 140, yellow or pale brown, oblong, flat.



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