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Herbarium specimen: Veronica arvensis

Taxon:Scrophulariaceae: Veronica arvensis L. ("Wall Speedwell")
Filed in taxon folder:Scrophulariaceae: Veronica arvensis L. ("Wall Speedwell")
Collected by:Dr Henry Halcro Johnston
Collection date:2/6/1922
Locality:Great Britain, VC111 Orkney, Rousay, HY32, Hullion, hay field., (altitude 70ft)
Institution:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:K001012256
Image:
© Kew
Veronica arvensis herbarium specimen from Rousay, VC111 Orkney in 1922 by Dr Henry Halcro Johnston.
collector's number:1652
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:Not native. A weed of cultivation. Common. Plants in full flower. Corolla minute, with a purplish-blue limb, and a pale whitish-yellow tube. Simple and gland-tipped hairs on calyx.

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Documented by wshuff on 24th March 2014.

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