Veronica triloba(Opiz) Opiz

trilobed speedwell

WFO wfo-0000425068 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Veronica triloba, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-24 / obs. 190727849
Veronica triloba, photographed by Fethullah ÖZTÜRK
fig. b Fethullah ÖZTÜRK, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201205995
Veronica triloba, photographed by Fethullah ÖZTÜRK
fig. c Fethullah ÖZTÜRK, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201205954
Veronica triloba, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. d Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190727872
Veronica triloba, photographed by Fethullah ÖZTÜRK
fig. e Fethullah ÖZTÜRK, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201205972
Veronica triloba, photographed by Fethullah ÖZTÜRK
fig. f Fethullah ÖZTÜRK, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201206108
Veronica triloba, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. g Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190727831
Veronica triloba, photographed by Pavel Kúr
fig. h Pavel Kúr, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184045530

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Native range 15 botanical countries

Regions where Veronica triloba is native: East Aegean Is., Lebanon-Syria, Türkiye, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kriti, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe East Aegean Is.Lebanon-SyriaTürkiyeAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaFranceGermanyGreeceItalyKritiNW. Balkan Pen.PolandSpainTürkiye-in-Europe
Native distribution of Veronica triloba, 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
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
France FRA
Germany GER
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Poland POL
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
East Aegean Is. EAI ASIA-TEMPERATE
Lebanon-Syria LBS
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 63 in flower of 71 examined

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Veronica triloba 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. 63 of 71 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 4 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.

  • Cochlidiosperma triloba (Opiz) D.Y.Hong & S.Nilsson
  • Veronica hederifolia f. microphylla Borsos
  • Veronica hederifolia subsp. triloba (Opiz) Čelak.
  • Veronica hederifolia var. triloba Opiz

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.