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|accepted_name=Veronica filiformis
|accepted_authority=Smith
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|place=1: 195. 1791
|year=1791
}}
|common_names=Slender speedwell;véronique filiforme
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Veronica;Veronica filiformis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Veronica]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Veronica filiformis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 305, 307, 321
|treatment_page=page 320
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems creeping, 5–50 cm, eglandular- and glandular-hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade suborbiculate, 4–13 × 4–14 mm, base cordate, margins crenate-serrate, teeth (2 or)3–5(or 6) per side, apex rounded, surfaces sparsely eglandular- and/or glandular-hairy. <b>Racemes</b> 1–6, terminal, 50–500 mm, 10–20-flowered, axis sparsely eglandular- and/or glandular-hairy; bracts suborbiculate, 4–13 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> patent or recurved, (15–)20–30 mm, length 2–5 times subtending bract, eglandular- and glandular-hairy. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes 4–7 mm, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, apex rounded, sparsely glandular-hairy to glabrate; corolla blue-violet to pale blue and white, 8–14 mm diam.; stamens 2.1–2.5 mm; style 3–4 mm. <b>Capsules</b> compressed in cross section, subglobular, 3.5–5 × 5.5–6.5 mm, apex emarginate, sinus angle 50–90°, absent or almost smooth, glabrous or glandular-ciliate. <b>Seeds</b> (2–)6–14(–18), ochre, ovoid, flat to ± excavate, 1.3–1.7 × 1–1.3 mm, 0.6–0.8 mm thick, rugose to rugulose. <b>2n</b> = 14 (Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Aug).
|habitat=Moist lawns and meadows, waste fields, stream banks.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Idaho;Md.;Mich.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Veronica filiformis</i> is self-incompatible. In the flora area, plants seldom produce capsules; it is dispersed by stem cuttings. The species is native to subalpine meadows in the Caucasus and northern Turkey.</p>
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name=Veronica filiformis
|author=
|authority=Smith
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Mar–)Apr–Jun(–Aug).
|habitat=Moist lawns and meadows, waste fields, stream banks.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Ont.;Que.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Idaho;Md.;Mich.;N.Y.;Ohio;Oreg.;Pa.;Vt.;Wash.;W.Va.;Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Trans. Linn. Soc. London
|publication year=1791
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_774.xml
|genus=Veronica
|species=Veronica filiformis
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