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Veronica americana, variously called American brookline or American speedwell, is a plant native to temperate and arctic Asia and North America where it grows in streams and bottomlands. It is a herbaceous perennial with smooth stems 10-100 centimeter long that bear terminal or axillary racemes or spikes of soft violet flowers. The leaves are 1.5-8 centimeter long and 3 to 20 times as long as wide, short-petiolate, smooth, serrate to almost entire.
Perennial herb
2 - 10 in Tall
Mounding
Fast
Blue, Purple
Summer
Full Sun
Moderate
Prefers loamy or clay soils. Grows poorly in sandy soils.
For propagating by seed: No treatment. ( Emery and Frey 1971).
Disturbed places
Freshwater Marsh, Wetland-Riparian
Butterflies and moths supported
1 confirmed and 4 likely
Common Buckeye
Junonia coenia
Orange Tortrix Moth
Argyrotaenia franciscana
Verbena Bud Moth
Endothenia hebesana
Variable Checkerspot
Euphydryas chalcedona