Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Veronica serpyllifolia, Lus an treacha
Photographs: Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Thyme-leaved Speedwell
Veronica serpyllifolia
Lus an treacha
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Flowering time: March-October. Perennial. Native.

Flowers grow in terminal racemes and are pale-blue to whitish with dark blue lines and oblong calyx lobes. The short-stalked oval leaves are hairless or very slightly downy and more or less untoothed. Erect flower stalks growing from creeping, rooting stems. Height to 20cm.

Abundant in most of Ireland in grassland, heaths and open woodland and on waste ground and roadsides.

Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Veronica serpyllifolia, Lus an treacha

Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Veronica serpyllifolia, Lus an treacha
Thyme-leaved Speedwell, Veronica serpyllifolia, Lus an treacha

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