Plantae > Tracheophyta > Magnoliopsida > Lamiales > Plantaginaceae > Veronica > Veronica chamaedrys

Veronica chamaedrys (germander speedwell)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Veronica chamaedrys (germander speedwell, bird's-eye speedwell) is a herbaceous perennial species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae.
View Wikipedia Record: Veronica chamaedrys

Infraspecies

Veronica chamaedrys chamaedryoides
Veronica chamaedrys chamaedrys
Veronica chamaedrys micans
Veronica chamaedrys var. eglandulosa

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  UV-Blue
Flower Color [2]  Blue
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [3]  Perennial
Pollinators [3]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [5]  Herb
Height [3]  20 inches (0.5 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [4]  Moderate Acid
Soil Fertility [4]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [4]  Moist
View Plants For A Future Record : Veronica chamaedrys

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Andrena cineraria (Grey Mining Bee)[8]
Platycheirus scutatus[8]
Pseudopanthera macularia (Speckled Yellow Moth)[8]
Scathophaga stercoraria (Common Yellow Dung Fly)[8]
Xanthorhoe fluctuata (Garden Carpet Moth)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Peronospora agrestis[10]
Podosphaera fuliginea[10]
Ramularia chamaedryos[10]
Stenoptilia pterodactyla[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 8Ecology of Commanster
♦ 9Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0