Veronica austriacaL.

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WFO wfo-0000419756 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica austriaca, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. a Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-20 / obs. 199033014
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Иван Пристрем
fig. b Иван Пристрем, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195615132
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. c Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131655131
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Galyna Mykytynets
fig. d Galyna Mykytynets, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 131655453
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Богдан Кученко
fig. e Богдан Кученко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133070954
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Oleksii Vasyliuk
fig. f Oleksii Vasyliuk, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87469394
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Liubov Ilminska
fig. g Liubov Ilminska, CC0 1.0 / obs. 196706551
Veronica austriaca, photographed by Сергей Крыленко
fig. h Сергей Крыленко, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 76147571

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Native range 20 botanical countries

Regions where Veronica austriaca is native: North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine North CaucasusTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaGermanyGreeceHungaryItalyNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Veronica austriaca, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
Italy ITA
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
North Caucasus NCS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 138 in flower of 158 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Veronica austriaca observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 138 of 158 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 9 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 61 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.

  • Veronica angustifolia (Vahl) Bernh.
  • Veronica austriaca f. cana Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca f. neiceffii (Degen) Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca f. praeterita (Beck) Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca f. villosa Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca prol. jacquinii (Baumg.) K.Malý
  • Veronica austriaca subsp. macrodonta (Borbás) J.Keller
  • Veronica austriaca subsp. neicefii (Degen) Peev
  • Veronica austriaca subsp. tenuissima Degen & Dren.
  • Veronica austriaca subsp. virescens (Velen.) Peev
  • Veronica austriaca subvar. platyphylla Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca subvar. tenuis (Velen.) Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca var. bihariensis (A.Kern.) Hayek
  • Veronica austriaca var. bipinnatifida W.D.J.Koch
  • Veronica austriaca var. dentata (F.W.Schmidt) W.D.J.Koch
  • Veronica austriaca var. dentata (F.W.Schmidt) Ledeb.
  • Veronica austriaca var. macrodonta (Borbás) Watzl
  • Veronica austriaca var. neiceffii (Degen) Stoj. & Stef.
  • Veronica austriaca var. pinnatifida W.D.J.Koch
  • Veronica austriaca var. praeterita Beck
  • Veronica austriaca var. tenuis (Velen.) Stoj. & Stef.
  • Veronica bihariensis A.Kern.
  • Veronica brachystyla Rehmann
  • Veronica crispa Lodd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.

and 37 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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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