Showy Speedwell
Veronica decorosa
Family Plantaginaceae
Rare — SA: Rare
About
Veronica decorosa is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae and grows in South Australia. It has white flowers borne on long stems.
How to spot it
Veronica decorosa is a small shrub to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) high and similar width and mostly smooth. The leaves are sessile, linear to oval-linear shaped, 1–7.5 cm (0.39–2.95 in) long, 0.5–5 mm (0.020–0.197 in) wide and the margins entire or sparsely toothed and recurved. The flowers are in a long racemes, white, occasionally purple in the centre, four lobed, each lobe 5–8 mm (0.20–0.31 in) long, blunt or rounded, upper lobe wider with purple lines, bracts narrowly oval-shaped and 2–9 mm (0.079–0.354
Documented on these trails
Found in
- Mount Remarkable National Park — Flinders Ranges & Outback SA hikes