Veronica triphyllos

Three Piece Speedwell ( Veronica triphyllos )

The Three-piece Speedwell ( Veronica triphyllos ), also referred to as finger speedwell or three-bladed speedwell, is a member of the plantain family ( Plantaginaceae ). It flowers mainly from March to May

Appearance

The annual herbaceous plant reaches a height 2-15 cm. It has an unpleasant odor. The stem is hairy and glandular at the base has usually several ascending side shoots. The leaves are short stalked, deeply palmately lobed three-to five-piece and have more or less lineal sections. The lowest are often notched or sinuate. The flowers are in loose, few-flowered clusters. The crown is colored deep azure blue and has a length of about 5-8 mm. The fruit stalks are about as long as the deep three-column covers and are available from bent upward. The capsules are roundish, deeply emarginate at an acute angle and densely hairy with glandular. The seeds are dark brown to black.

Habitat requirements and distribution

The Three-piece prize in cereal weeds growing companies, vineyards and along roadsides. He prefers more or less dry, often calcareous sandy soils. It is a little warmth.

Veronica triphyllos comes from England and Scandinavia prior to the Mediterranean. To the east penetrates the plant to Asia Minor, in the Caucasus and West Asia. It thus is a Eurasian- submediterranes Florenelement.

In Austria, the species is scattered to rare and endangered regional basis, such as in the Alps. In Switzerland, the species is rare in Valais and find in Graubünden.

The Three-piece prize comes in Germany before scattered to locally common. In northwestern Germany it is very rare.