genus veronica
Noun
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Widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell (synset 112910769)
is a type of: asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsmember holonym:
- speedwell, veronica - any plant of the genus Veronica
- field speedwell, veronica agrestis - European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America
- american brooklime, brooklime, veronica americana - plant of western North America and northeastern Asia having prostrate stems with dense racemes of pale violet to lilac flowers
- brooklime, european brooklime, veronica beccabunga - European plant having low-lying stems with blue flowers; sparsely naturalized in North America
- veronica anagallis-aquatica, veronica michauxii, water speedwell - plant of wet places in Eurasia and America
belongs to: family scrophulariaceae, figwort family, foxglove family, scrophulariaceae - a family of dicotyledonous plants of the order Polemoniales; includes figwort and snapdragon and foxglove and toadflax and speedwell and mullein; in some classifications placed in the order Scrophulariales
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