Veronica austriaca

Austrian speedwell ( Veronica austriaca )

The Austrian speedwell ( Veronica austriaca ) is a flowering plant in the family of the plantain family ( Plantaginaceae ).

Description

Vegetative characteristics

The Austrian speedwell grows as a perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the heights of growth of mostly 15 to 25, rarely up to 50 centimeters. The upright or at least arched ascending stems are terete and round hairy. The plant is drüsenlos and does not form spurs.

The stem leaves are lanceolate, sessile or short-stalked, nearly entire to pinnatifid and little hairy. Here, at least, most stem leaves above the inflorescences are usually linear and entire. The leaf margin is significantly umgerollt down. The middle and lower leaves are broadly linear- lanceolate, as well 3 to 10 ( up to 15 ) mm wide. The edge is often slightly rolled over.

Generative features

The flowering period extends from May to June. The long -stalked, racemose inflorescences have no bracts. The hermaphrodite flowers are fünfzählig. The hairy calyx is in five parts, the rear ( = upper) tip is smaller than the rest. The dark azure and dark striped crown has a diameter of usually 10 to 15 ( 8-18 ) mm. The throat is white. The stylus is 4 to 5 millimeters long. The hairy capsule fruit is acutely emarginate and slightly flattened.

This Hemikryptophyt is hexaploid.

Occurrence

The Austrian speedwell occurs on moderately deep dry grassland, oak forest hemming and Schwarzföhrenwäldern. He is kalkhold and grows from the colline to submontane altitudinal zone. In Austria he comes in the Pannonian area scattered to rare, otherwise very rare. The Austrian speedwell occurs in Vienna, Lower Austria, Burgenland, Styria and Carinthia Southeast, in Upper Austria he is extinct. He is listed as endangered, in the Alps, it is high risk.