Veronica chamaedrysL.

Germander Speedwell

WFO wfo-0000419437 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by Anastasia_Surkova
fig. a Anastasia_Surkova, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-12 / obs. 205903037
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by Charlie Farrell
fig. b Charlie Farrell, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205829737
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. c Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205527146
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by aga_l_
fig. d aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205206103
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by ZWG
fig. e ZWG, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205176332
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by Mark Costello
fig. f Mark Costello, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205170391
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. g Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205952446
Veronica chamaedrys, photographed by Tatiana Strus
fig. h Tatiana Strus, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205148334

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 12,826 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 12,826 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 55 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.

  • Cardia ciliata Dulac
  • Veronica amphibola Hausskn.
  • Veronica bibarbata Stokes
  • Veronica chamaedrya St.-Lag.
  • Veronica chamaedryoides Bory & Chaub.
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. campestris Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. incisifolia J.Keller
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. petiolata (Halácsy) Diklić
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. pratensis Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. procumbens Borhidi
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. serrae Sennen
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. sylvatica Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica chamaedrys f. umbrosa Wimm. & Grab.
  • Veronica chamaedrys subsp. krumovii Peev
  • Veronica chamaedrys subsp. micans M.A.Fisch.
  • Veronica chamaedrys subsp. orbelica Peev
  • Veronica chamaedrys subsp. vindobonensis M.A.Fisch.
  • Veronica chamaedrys unranked variegata Abbey
  • Veronica chamaedrys var. lamiifolia (Hayne) Beck
  • Veronica chamaedrys var. lamiifolia Roth
  • Veronica chamaedrys var. legitima Ledeb.
  • Veronica chamaedrys var. nemorosa Willk.
  • Veronica chamaedrys var. pilosa Benth.
  • Veronica chamaedrys var. pinnatifida Asch. & Graebn.

and 31 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.