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|accepted_name=Veronica cusickii
|accepted_authority=A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|place=2(1): 288. 1878
|year=1878
}}
|common_names=Cusick's speedwell
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Veronica allenii
|authority=Greenman
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Veronica;Veronica cusickii
|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 cusickii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 307
|treatment_page=page 310
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials.</b> Stems erect, unbranched or sparsely branched at base, (5–)10–15(–30) cm, finely glandular-hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade elliptic-ovate, (5–)10–25 × 5–10 mm, base cuneate, margins entire or subentire, apex short-acuminate, surfaces glabrous or glabrate. <b>Racemes</b> 1, terminal, (15–)40–80(–130) mm, (4–)8–30(–40)-flowered, axis finely glandular-hairy; bracts lanceolate, 3–7(–11) mm. <b>Pedicels</b> erect, 3–9 mm, equal to or ± longer than subtending bract, finely glandular-hairy. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes 2–3 mm, apex acute to obtuse, finely glandular-hairy; corolla deep blue-violet, rarely white, rotate, (8–)10–13 mm diam.; stamens 4–8 mm; style (5–)6–9(–10) mm, conspicuously exerted. <b>Capsules</b> compressed in cross section, oblong-obovoid, 4–6 × 3.5–5.5 mm, ca. as long as wide, apex emarginate, finely glandular-hairy. <b>Seeds</b> 28–32, straw colored or dark brown, ovoid, flat, 0.6 × 0.4 mm, 0.1 mm thick, rough. <b>2n</b> = 18, 72.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Gravelly soils, openings in coniferous forests and in subalpine and alpine meadows.
|elevation=1500–3200 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|discussion=<p><i>Veronica cusickii</i> is sister to <i>V. copelandii</i> and closely related to <i>V. wormskjoldii </i>subsp.<i> nutans</i> (D. C. Albach et al. 2006).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Veronica cusickii
|authority=A. Gray in A. Gray et al.
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Veronica allenii
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jun–Aug.
|habitat=Gravelly soils, openings in coniferous forests and in subalpine and alpine meadows.
|elevation=1500–3200 m.
|distribution=B.C.;Calif.;Idaho;Mont.;Oreg.;Wash.
|reference=None
|publication title=Syn. Fl. N. Amer.
|publication year=1878
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V17/V17_747.xml
|genus=Veronica
|species=Veronica cusickii
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