Distribution: Across Canada and most of the United States except for the southeast. Also native to Europe and Asia.
Habitat: Water Speedwell is found in swamps and in quiet streams.
Flowering period: May to September.
Lucas Land
Water Speedwell
Veronica anagallis-aquatica
From Nearctica
Identification: A tall, erect plant. Flowers blue to purple, with 4 petals, and 2 spreading stamens. Petals streaked with dark and lower petal small and narrower than the other 3. Flowers with long flower stalks (pedicels) and arranged in long, loose spikes (racemes) arising from the leaf axils. Leaves opposite, ovate, with smooth outer margins. Upper and middle leaves sessile to the stem. Lower leaves with long tapering petioles. Plant 1 to 3 feet in height.