Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Wall Speedwell, Veronica arvensis, Lus cre balla
Photographs: Macroom, Co. Cork

Wall Speedwell
Veronica arvensis
Lus cré balla
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Flowering time: March-October. Annual. Native.

Small deep blue flowers with white centres on short stalks (a deeper blue than other speedwells). Smaller flowers occur on early flowering plants. The downy leaves are oval-triangular and toothed, the upper leaves without stalks and narrower. An erect or prostrate plant with a more/less branched growth habit. Height 5-20cm

Very common on dry ground, walls, dunes, waste ground, heaths and among open grassland

Wall Speedwell, Veronica arvensis, Lus cre balla

Wall Speedwell, Veronica arvensis, Lus cre balla
Wall Speedwell, Veronica arvensis, Lus cre balla

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