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|accepted_name=Veronica teucrium
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl. ed.
|place=2, 1: 16. 1762
|year=1762
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|common_names=Large speedwell
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Veronica austriaca subsp. teucrium
|authority=(Linnaeus) D. A. Webb
|rank=subspecies
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|name=V. austriaca var. teucrium
|authority=(Linnaeus) O. Bolòs & Vigo
|rank=variety
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Veronica;Veronica teucrium
|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 teucrium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 305, 306
|treatment_page=page 322
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems erect, rarely ascending, (15–)30–70(–100) cm, eglandular-hairy, hairs evenly distributed around stem. <b>Leaves</b>: blade ovate or oblong-ovate, rarely lanceolate, (20–)30–55(–70) × (6–)15–25(–45) mm, 2–3(–4) times as long as wide, base ± cordate, margins dentate to serrate to crenate-incised, rarely subentire, apex acute, abaxial surface hairy, adaxial glabrous. <b>Racemes</b> 2–4(–8), axillary, 60–150 mm, 50–150-flowered, axis hairy; bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, 4–8(–14) mm. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, 3–7(–14) mm, equal to subtending bract, eglandular-hairy. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 5-lobed, abaxial lobes 3–4 mm, adaxial 1–1.5 mm, apex acute, glabrous or hairy; corolla bright blue, rarely pinkish or white, (9–)12–18 mm diam.; stamens 4.5–6 mm; style 5–6 mm. <b>Capsules</b> ± compressed to ± round in cross section, broadly obovoid or obcordiform, (3–)4–5.5 × (2.5–)3.5–5 mm, apex not deeply, narrowly emarginate, glabrous or sparsely hairy. <b>Seeds</b> (2–)8–18, brown, widely ellipsoid to widely obovoid, flat, 1.2–2.1 × 1–1.5 mm, 0.2–0.4 mm thick, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 48, 64 (Europe).</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Dry meadows, forest edges, scrub, calcareous soils.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Que.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;S.Dak.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p><i>Veronica teucrium</i> has often been considered an infraspecific taxon of V. austriaca; many records of <i>V. teucrium</i> have been reported under the name V. austriaca. The occurrence of V. austriaca in the narrow sense in the flora area could be neither supported nor excluded; it differs from <i>V. teucrium</i> mainly in distal leaves of the vegetative shoot linear and entire.</p><!--
--><p>Related species have been introduced for horticultural reasons but apparently have not escaped. <i>Veronica</i> satureiifolia Poiteau & Turpin was reported from Missouri by G. Yatskievych [1999–2013; as V. scheereri (J.-P. Brandt) Holub] outside cultivation based on a single specimen and was similarly found in MIN but likely not naturalized. The name V. latifolia Linnaeus, which has at times been used for <i>V. teucrium</i>, is now considered ambiguous and should not be used (R. K. Brummitt 2007). Reports of <i>V. teucrium</i> in Saskatchewan have not been verified.</p>
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name=Veronica teucrium
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Veronica austriaca subsp. teucrium;V. austriaca var. teucrium
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Jul.
|habitat=Dry meadows, forest edges, scrub, calcareous soils.
|elevation=0–1000 m.
|distribution=Nfld. and Labr. (Nfld.);Ont.;Que.;Conn.;D.C.;Ill.;Ind.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;N.H.;N.J.;N.Y.;Ohio;Pa.;S.Dak.;Vt.;Wis.;Europe.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1762
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Veronica
|species=Veronica teucrium
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