Veronica incanaL.

WFO wfo-0000425736 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica incana, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. a Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-04 / obs. 203309601
Veronica incana, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. b Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 196558017
Veronica incana, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. c Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 168825692
Veronica incana, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. d Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166677253
Veronica incana, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. e Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166671266
Veronica incana, photographed by Aleksei Baushev
fig. f Aleksei Baushev, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 166669128
Veronica incana, photographed by Valentin Kosterin
fig. g Valentin Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173373598
Veronica incana, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. h Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 167243888

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Veronica incana is native: Altay, Amur, Buryatiya, Chita, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Manchuria, Mongolia, Primorye, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya, Austria, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Ukraine AltayAmurBuryatiyaChitaInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKhabarovskKrasnoyarskMagadanManchuriaMongoliaPrimoryeTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiyaAustriaBulgariaCentral European RussiaEast European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Veronica incana, 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
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Amur AMU
Buryatiya BRY
Chita CTA
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Khabarovsk KHA
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Magadan MAG
Manchuria CHM
Mongolia MON
Primorye PRM
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK
Austria AUT EUROPE
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
East European Russia RUE
Ukraine UKR

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 99 in flower of 127 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Veronica incana 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. 99 of 127 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 20 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.

  • Pseudolysimachion incanum (L.) Holub
  • Pseudolysimachion incanum T.Yamaz.
  • Pseudolysimachion incanum subsp. pallens (Host) Trávn.
  • Pseudolysimachion pallens (Host) M.A.Fisch.
  • Pseudolysimachion semiglabratum (Ostapko) Ostapko
  • Pseudolysimachion xilinense (Y.Z.Zhao) Y.Z.Zhao
  • Veronica bellidifolia Juz.
  • Veronica callistachya Ledeb. ex Loudon
  • Veronica candida Lodd. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Veronica candidissima E.Vilm.
  • Veronica canescens Schrad.
  • Veronica hololeuca Juz.
  • Veronica incana subsp. hololeuca (Juz.) Elenevsky
  • Veronica incana subsp. pallens (Host) Albach
  • Veronica pallens Host
  • Veronica semiglabrata Ostapko
  • Veronica sergievskiana Polozhij
  • Veronica spicata subsp. incana (L.) Walters
  • Veronica spicata subsp. incana S.M.Walters
  • Veronica xilinensis Y.Z.Zhao

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. 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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