Veronica polita
Veronica polita
Mavişot
Annual. Stems 5-30 cm, strongly decumbent, strongly branched, with 1-3 pairs of leaves. Petiole 1-5 mm; lamina ovate, 5-12x4-10 mm, sparsely pubescent to subglabrous, dark green, ± slightly coriaceous and ± shining, remaining greenish when dry, base rounded to cordate, margin crenate to deeply crenate, ± revolute. All bracts leaf-like. Pedicels 4-10 mm, ½ -1 ½ x subtending bracts, ± curved downwards. Calyx lobes broadly ovate or elliptic, 3,5-4,5 x 2,2-3,5 mm in fruit, usually overlapping laterally, somewhat membranous with prominent veins. Corolla blue, 5-8 mm diam. Style 1-1,5 mm, usually overtopping sinus. Capsule scarcely compressed, 3-4 x 4-6 mm, 2-lobed, usually densely pubescent with short eglandular and longer glandular hairs, veins indistinct or absent, keel indistinct, sinus acute, narrow. Seeds c. 20-24, 1,1-1,6x0,7-1,2 mm, pale yellowish, clearly cymbiform, rugose with parallel ridges. Fl. 9-6. Bare soil in open forests, steppe, cultivated land, roadsides, s.l.-1800 m.
Temperate Eurasia and N. Africa. Probably native in S.W. Asia, but now an almost cosmopolitan weed.
