Veronica spuriaL.

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WFO wfo-0000425308 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica spuria, photographed by Ксения Волянская
fig. a Ксения Волянская, CC BY 4.0 / 2020-07-11 / obs. 107583210
Veronica spuria, photographed by Safina Rezeda
fig. b Safina Rezeda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 158427172
Veronica spuria, photographed by Евгений Егорейченков
fig. c Евгений Егорейченков, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201175533
Veronica spuria, photographed by Stanislav Murashkin
fig. d Stanislav Murashkin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145787099
Veronica spuria, photographed by Вячеслав Пискарев
fig. e Вячеслав Пискарев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145757698
Veronica spuria, photographed by Вячеслав Пискарев
fig. f Вячеслав Пискарев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145564973
Veronica spuria, photographed by Вячеслав Пискарев
fig. g Вячеслав Пискарев, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 137336843
Veronica spuria, photographed by Valerii Glazunov
fig. h Valerii Glazunov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 138559992

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Native range 22 botanical countries

Regions where Veronica spuria is native: Altay, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Mongolia, North Caucasus, Tadzhikistan, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Czechia-Slovakia, East European Russia, Hungary, North European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Romania, South European Russia, Ukraine AltayKazakhstanKirgizstanMongoliaNorth CaucasusTadzhikistanWest SiberiaXinjiangAustriaBaltic StatesBelarusBulgariaCentral European RussiaCzechia-SlovakiaEast European RussiaHungaryNorth European RussiaNW. Balkan Pen.PolandRomaniaSouth European RussiaUkraine
Native distribution of Veronica spuria, 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
Austria AUT EUROPE
Baltic States BLT
Belarus BLR
Bulgaria BUL
Central European Russia RUC
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
East European Russia RUE
Hungary HUN
North European Russia RUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Romania ROM
South European Russia RUS
Ukraine UKR
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Mongolia MON
North Caucasus NCS
Tadzhikistan TZK
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX

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 45 in flower of 55 examined

Peak flowering in Jul. Each bar is the share of Veronica spuria 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. 45 of 55 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 42 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.

  • Ponaria laciniata (Aiton) Raf.
  • Pseudolysimachion paniculatum (L.) Hartl
  • Pseudolysimachion paniculatum subsp. foliosum (Waldst. & Kit.) Hartl
  • Pseudolysimachion spurium (L.) Rauschert
  • Pseudolysimachion spurium subsp. foliosum (Waldst. & Kit.) Holub
  • Pseudolysimachion spurium subsp. paniculatum (L.) Dostál
  • Pseudolysimachion spurium var. nitidum (Ehrh. ex Hoffm.) Soó
  • Veronica altaica Fisch.
  • Veronica amethystina Willd.
  • Veronica brevifolia M.Bieb.
  • Veronica capitulata Poir.
  • Veronica foliosa Waldst. & Kit.
  • Veronica foliosa var. angustifolia Wallr.
  • Veronica foliosa var. latifolia Wallr.
  • Veronica foliosa var. nitida (Ehrh. ex Hoffm.) G.Don
  • Veronica foliosa var. spuria (L.) G.Don
  • Veronica incisa Aiton
  • Veronica laciniata Aiton
  • Veronica leptostachya Rchb.
  • Veronica leucantha Helm
  • Veronica mollis Willd. ex Link
  • Veronica nitida Ehrh. ex Hoffm.
  • Veronica paniculata L.
  • Veronica paniculata subsp. foliosa (Waldst. & Kit.) Skalický

and 18 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.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.