Veronica arvensisL.

corn speedwell

WFO wfo-0000419753 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Veronica arvensis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. a Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205545399
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. b Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205522073
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205523310
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Ian Manning
fig. d Ian Manning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205160593
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. e Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205025510
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205236076
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Eric Schmidt
fig. g Eric Schmidt, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205032962
Veronica arvensis, photographed by Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas
fig. h Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 204936817

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Flowering n = 2,762 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 2,762 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 44 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.

  • Agerella arvensis (L.) Fourr.
  • Cardia arvensis (L.) Dulac
  • Veronica acinifolia F.W.Schmidt
  • Veronica acinifolia var. brevipedunculata Pau
  • Veronica arvensis f. congesta Caball.
  • Veronica arvensis f. glandulosa Legrand
  • Veronica arvensis f. microcarpa Pau
  • Veronica arvensis f. pilosissima P.Monts.
  • Veronica arvensis subsp. pennellii Elenevsky
  • Veronica arvensis subsp. pseudoarvensis (Tineo) H.Lindb.
  • Veronica arvensis subsp. rubricaulis Marcet
  • Veronica arvensis unranked balearica Sennen
  • Veronica arvensis var. atlantica Batt.
  • Veronica arvensis var. canescens Merino
  • Veronica arvensis var. demissa (Samp.) Cout.
  • Veronica arvensis var. erecta Klett & Richt.
  • Veronica arvensis var. microphylla Merino
  • Veronica arvensis var. nana DC.
  • Veronica arvensis var. polyanthos (Thuill.) Mérat
  • Veronica arvensis var. procumbens Schltdl.
  • Veronica arvensis var. pseudoarvensis (Tineo) Fiori
  • Veronica arvensis var. ramosa Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica arvensis var. reniformis (Raf.) Alph.Wood
  • Veronica arvensis var. rigida Vayr.

and 20 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.