Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Narrow-leaved Hebe, Veronica salicifolia, Niamhscoth shailí
Photographs: near Ballingeary, Co. Cork

Narrow-leaved Hebe / Koromiko
Veronica salicifolia (Hebe salicifolia)
Niamhscoth shailí
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Flowering: June-October. Evergreen shrub. Introduced.

Many small white or lilac-white flowers in often drooping racemes. Self-seeds freely. Shiny light-green leaves are opposite, spear-shaped, slightly toothed. Slightly tender evergreen shrub with upright branches. To 2m

A garden escape usually found near habitation on waste ground and walls, in quarries and occasionally on coasts.

Similar: Hedge Veronica, H. x franciscana

Narrow-leaved Hebe, Veronica salicifolia, Niamhscoth shailí

Narrow-leaved Hebe, Veronica salicifolia, Niamhscoth shailí
Narrow-leaved Hebe, Veronica salicifolia (Hebe salicifolia), Niamhscoth shailí

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