Veronica orchidea

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica orchidea, photographed by Conrad Altmann — fig. c Conrad Altmann, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 8541393

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Native range 11 botanical countries

Native distribution of Veronica orchidea, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Albania	ALB	EUROPE
Austria	AUT
Bulgaria	BUL
Czechia-Slovakia	CZE
Hungary	HUN
Italy	ITA
NW. Balkan Pen.	YUG
Poland	POL
Romania	ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe	TUE
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 34 in flower of 36 examined

100%

Proportion of examined Veronica orchidea in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	2	too few examined
Jun	13	13	100%	77% to 100%
Jul	14	14	100%	78% to 100%
Aug	4	4	too few examined
Sep	1	1	too few examined
Oct	2	2	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Veronica orchidea 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. 34 of 36 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 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 41 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 banaticum Holub
Pseudolysimachion cristatum (Bernh.) Opiz
Pseudolysimachion orchideum (Crantz) Wraber
Pseudolysimachion orchideum (Crantz) Wraber
Pseudolysimachion orchideum subsp. carpaticum (Dostál) Dostál
Pseudolysimachion orchideum var. bulgaricum (Peev) Peev & M.A.Fisch.
Pseudolysimachion orchideum var. eglandulosum Peev & M.A.Fisch.
Pseudolysimachion orchideum var. glandulopilosum Peev & M.A.Fisch.
Pseudolysimachion spicatum subsp. orchideum (Crantz) Hartl
Pseudolysimachion spicatum subsp. transcaucasicum (Bordz.) Gabrieljan
Pseudolysimachion transcaucasicum (Bordz.) Holub
Pseudolysimachion urumovii (Velen.) Holub
Pseudolysimachion vandasii (Rohlena) Holub
Veronica crantzii Schult.
Veronica crassifolia Wierzb. ex Heuff.
Veronica cristata Bernh.
Veronica hybrida M.Bieb.
Veronica monstrosa Schult.
Veronica muscosa Schult.
Veronica orchidea f. nudicalyx Peev
Veronica orchidea f. puberifolia Peev
Veronica orchidea subsp. crassifolia Nyman
Veronica orchidea subsp. transcaucasica (Bordz.) Albach
Veronica orchidea var. bulgarica (Peev) Albach

and 17 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

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