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2010-06-22 Lower Austria, district Neunkirchen (mixed forest, 790 msm Quadrant 8161/4).German name: Digitalis grandiflora
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Arizona, United States
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El Toro, Balearic Islands, Spain
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Aeae (Bacopa monnieri)Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)Indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands (all the Main Islands except Kahoolawe; also in the Northwest Islands on Midway)Oahu (Cultivated)Growing well in the wettest portion of my Native Hawaiian Fern Garden.The whole herb is used medicinally in India in a variety of ways. It is grown as a medicinal crop and is being research for antioxidant properties, to help the nervous system, and to improve memory and mental functions.EtymologyThe genus Bacopa is a Latinized form of the aboriginal name of these plants used by the indigenous people of French Guana.The specific epithet monnieri is probably named for the French naturalist Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier (1717-1799).
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Christmas, Florida, United States
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Arizona, United States
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Minneapolis, MN USA
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Birgsau, Bavaria, Germany
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Veronica fruticans Jacq.Rock Speedwell, DE: Felsen-EhrenpreisSlo.: skalni jetinikDat.: July 1. 2015Lat.: 46.44212 Long.: 13.64298Code: Bot_897/2015_IMG8804 Habitat: stony alpine grassland, road side, skeletal ground; southwest oriented mountain slope; open, sunny and dry place; calcareous ground, exposed to direct rain, elevation 2.000 m (6.500 feet), average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 0 - 2 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Substratum: soil among stones and rocks.Place: Mt. Mangart region, Mangart's flats, road side of Mt. Mangart Alpine tool road, at the beginning of the end road loop, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC.Comment: Veronica fruticans is one of the most beautiful species of very numerous genus Veronica. There are well above thirty species and subspecies known growing in Slovenia. They are not always easy to be determined correctly. Six of them climb up to alpine elevations. None of them has so intensive colored, deep blue flowers as Veronica fruticans. They are also quite large for the genus. Hence it is easy to spot it and to be properly recognized. Veronica fruticans grows exclusively in subalpine and alpine elevations. Individual flowers open for only a single day, but the flowers are clustered and they open one after another, therefore the plant can be spotted a considerably long time in July and August.Ref.:(1) A.Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije, Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007) (in Slovene), p 478.
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Veronica serpyllifolia ssp. serpyllifolia L.Thyme-leaved Speedwell, DE: Gewhnlicher Quendel- Ehrenpreis, Thymianblttriger EhrenpreisSlo.: timijanov jetinikDat.: May 15. 2016Lat.: 46.36044 Long.: 13.70256Code: Bot_956/2016_DSC2130Habitat: Trodden grassland around a cottage; calcareous, skeletal, ground, under the canopy of large Tilia cordata, in half shade, partly protected from direct rain by tree canopy, elevation 600 m (1.970 feet); average precipitations ~ 3.000 mm/year, average temperature 7-9 deg C, alpine phytogeographical region. Place: Lower Trenta valley, between villages Soa and Trenta, next to the cottage Trenta 2b, East Julian Alps, Posoje, Slovenia EC. Comment: Genus Veronica is numerous. About 400 species grow worldwide and 36 in Slovenia. Most of them are low, inconspicuous plants with small, whitish, pink, pale violet or bluish flowers. Only a few of them have vividly blue, easy to spot flowers (for example, very common Veronica chamaedrys, which frequently forms large, dense, radiantly blue patches and much less frequent alpine Veronica fruticans). To recognize genus is not difficult. Most of them have typically shaped flowers and their fruits have a form of small hearts. Veronica serpyllifolia ssp. serpyllifolia is originally an Euro-Siberian, now Sub-cosmopolitan floral element. It is common and 'modest', not really showy and many times overlooked. However, its flowers are beautiful when looked with a hand lens. It keeps with road and path sides and other grassy, nitrogen rich places. One can find it from lowland to subalpine elevations. Herbarium: Herbarij Biolokega Intituta Jovan Hadi, SRC ZASU, Index Herbariorum LJS.Ref.:(1) M.A. Fischer, W. Adler, K. Oswald, Exkursionsflora fr sterreich, Liechtenstein und Sdtirol, LO Landesmuseen, Linz, Austria (2005), p 734.(2) A. Martini et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnina Zaloba Slovenije (2007), p 560. (3) D. Aeschimann, K. Lauber, D.M. Moser, J.P. Theurillat, Flora Alpina, Vol. 2., Haupt (2004), p 214.(4) K. Lauber and G. Wagner, Flora Helvetica, 5. Auflage, Haupt (2012), p 888.
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Pentland Hills, Victoria, Australia
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Colorado, United States
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Selbitz, Bavaria, Germany
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2011-10-30 Upper Austria, city of Linz - Schlossberg, on wall (280 msm Quadrant 7651/4).German name: Mauer-Zimbelkraut
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Veronica hederifolia (V. hederaefolia is considered as a misspelled orthographic variant requiring correction) is yet another example of a misguidedly planted non-native species which has now escaped from cultivation and is starting to invade local foothills. It is shown here at a valley elevation closer no doubt to where it has been historically grown.Formerly uncomfortably included in the family Scrophulariaceae, the genus Veronica is now a part of the Plantaginaceae. While we have a few native species in this genus, most are introduced weeds.The flowers have only two stamens (which can be seen here) which is somewhat unusual. Strongly ciliate. The calyx is 4-merous. The anthers are blue. Leaves are opposite, shallowly tri-lobed, entire, petioled, with simple trichomes. April 10, 2013, Salt Lake County, Utah, approx. 4,340 ft. elev.
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United States
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Orlando, Florida, United States
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Florida, United States
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Molino Basin, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona. April 24, 2010
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2011-08-10 Vienna XXII. district, Lobau - Danube National Park (153 msm Quadrant 7865/1).German name: Tannenwedel (+ Gross-Teichrose)