Purslane Speedwell

(Veronica peregrina)

Characteristics

Seedling	Leaves	Flowers	Fruit

Growing habit: Erect to ascending low growing cool-season annual herb

Root anatomy: Fibrous roots from short taproot

Leaf anatomy: Oppositely arranged below but alternate further up, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, lower leaves petioled with irregularly toothed to serrate margins; can be glabrous or pubescent, glandular trichomes

Reproduction: Raceme w/bracts, solitary in upper axils; flowers 4-lobed, white; capsule fruits

^{References: Weeds of the South by Charles T. Bryson and Michael S. DeFelice}