Veronica anagallis-aquaticaL.

blue water-speedwell

WFO wfo-0000419633 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. a Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-05 / obs. 203585034
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Zakqary Roy
fig. b Zakqary Roy, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204957272
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Kathy Richardson
fig. c Kathy Richardson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204256718
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Andrew Tree
fig. d Andrew Tree, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202247872
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by David Delon
fig. e David Delon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203228559
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Vasily Reinkymov
fig. f Vasily Reinkymov, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201738066
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Daniel S.
fig. g Daniel S., CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201390251
Veronica anagallis-aquatica, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. h Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203016274

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Flowering n = 1,983 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,983 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 66 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Beccabunga anagallis-aquatica (L.) Fourr.
  • Cardia amplexicaulis Dulac
  • Veronica acutifolia Gilib.
  • Veronica ambigua Lucé
  • Veronica anagallidiformis Boreau
  • Veronica anagallis var. latifolia Britton
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica f. minuta Maire
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subsp. anagallidiformis (Boreau) Jáv. & Soó
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subsp. cordata Čelak.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subsp. divaricata Krösche
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subsp. neilreichii (Čelak.) Dostál
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subsp. transiens Rouy
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subvar. grandiflora Pérez Lara
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica subvar. hirtula Pérez Lara
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. anagallidiformis (Boreau) Franch.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. brittonii Pennell
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. elata Hoffmanns. & Link
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. humilis Cout.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. integrifolia Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. laevipes Čelak.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. lancifolia Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. latifolia Schultz ex Klett & Richt.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. latifolia Farw.
  • Veronica anagallis-aquatica var. latifolia Britton

and 42 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.