Veronica fruticulosa, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 244

7. V. fruticulosa L. , Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 15 (1762).

Like 6 but some of the hairs on pedicels, calyx and capsule patent and glandular; corolla 9-12 mm in diameter, pink (rarely deep blue); capsule 5-6-5 mm, suborbicular, with broader and distinctly emarginate apex. Mountain rocks; calcicole. • Higher mountains o f W. & S.C. Europe, from the Vosges and Sierra Nevada eastwards to N. W. Jugoslavia. Au Ga Ge He Hs It Ju.

The record from the Ukrainian Carpathians is erroneous. In the eastern part of their joint range 6 and 7 are quite distinct, but in the Pyrenees and N. Spain, and to a smaller extent in the S.W. Alps, plants are found in which the distinctive characters of the species are combined in various different ways. Until the whole complex has been surveyed throughout its range it is difficult to provide a taxonomic scheme for these variants. The most distinct appears to be V. mampodrensis Losa & P. Monts. , Anal. Inst. Bot. Cavanilles 11(2): 442 (1953), from the Cordillera Cantâbrica. This resembles 6 in having eglandular hairs in the inflorescence and a capsule about 8 mm long; but the hairs are patent, as in 7, which it also resembles in the shape of its capsule (very broadly elliptical, with wide, emarginate apex). The corolla is intermediate in colour (violet to purplish-pink). It has In = 16.