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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Veronica alpina
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 11. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Alpine speedwell;véronique alpine
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Veronica alpina subsp. australis
|authority=(Wahlenberg) Á. Löve & D. Löve
|rank=subspecies
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=V. alpina var. australis
|authority=Wahlenberg
|rank=variety
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=V. pumila
|authority=Allioni
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Veronica;Veronica alpina
|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 alpina]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 307
|treatment_page=page 309
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems ascending, often dark bluish distally, sparsely branched at base, 5–15(–25) cm, eglandular-hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade ovate or oblong-elliptic, 7–30 × 4–20 mm, base cuneate, margins indistinctly dentate or entire, apex short-acuminate, abaxial surface glabrate, adaxial ± hairy. <b>Racemes</b> 1, terminal, 5–20 mm, to 30 mm in fruit, (1–)3–20-flowered, axis eglandular-hairy; bracts oblanceolate, 4–5 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> ascending to erect, 1.5–2(–4) mm, shorter than subtending bract, eglandular-hairy. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes 3–4 mm, ciliate, apex obtuse or acuminate, eglandular-hairy; corolla sky blue or blue-violet, sometimes white, rotate, 2.5–5.5 mm diam.; stamens 2–2.3 mm; style 0.5–1.5(–2) mm. <b>Capsules</b> compressed in cross section, obovoid or oblong-obovoid, 4.5–7.5 × 3.5–5.5 mm, ca. as long as wide, apex shallowly emarginate, eglandular-hairy or glabrate. <b>Seeds</b> 9–53, brown to yellow, ellipsoid-oblong, flat, 0.7–1.2 × 0.4–1 mm, 0.1 mm thick, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Slopes, moist rocks, hillocks, moist alpine and subalpine meadows.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Greenland;Nunavut;Que.;Eurasia.
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Veronica alpina
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Veronica alpina subsp. australis;V. alpina var. australis;V. pumila
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering (Jun–)Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Slopes, moist rocks, hillocks, moist alpine and subalpine meadows.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Greenland;Nunavut;Que.;Eurasia.
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=
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|genus=Veronica
|species=Veronica alpina
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