Veronica verna L.

Erect annual; stems branched or simple, 1-15 cm tall, densely covered with short curly hairs. Lvs sessile or very shortly petiolate, 2-8-(13) × 1-3-(7) mm; apex obtuse to rounded; lowermost lvs entire or sparingly toothed; upper lvs pinnatifid to pinnatisect, the 3-7 lobes obovate to oblong. Infl. a terminal raceme with fls extending almost to base of plant, glandular-hairy, usually densely so; pedicels very short, much < bracts. Bracts narrow-oblong or elliptic, mostly 3-lobed but the uppermost simple, smaller than lvs. Fls very shortly pedicellate, > bracts, crowded. Calyx c. 2-3 mm long, 4 mm long at fruiting; lobes lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, obtuse or subacute. Corolla c. 2 mm diam., < calyx, deep blue. Capsule 3-4 mm wide, densely glandular-hairy all over; lobes obcordate; nerves slightly raised. Seed oblong-ellipsoid, strongly flattened.