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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Pauli on September 19, 2013, 06:18:38 AM

Title: Veronica ident
Post by: Pauli on September 19, 2013, 06:18:38 AM

Servus from Austria!

Please can anybody help with the identification of this Veronica. It was pictured End of May on the pass between Gospic and Karlobag in the Velebit mountains!

Title: Re: Veronica ident
Post by: Maggi Young on September 19, 2013, 03:51:37 PM

Looks midway between V. austriaca and A. dillenii ...... confusing that the foliage does not look very hairy....... I don't know!

Title: Re: Veronica ident
Post by: Pauli on September 24, 2013, 04:08:38 PM

With the help of some friends the plant was identified by Dr. Manfred Fischer (Veronica-guru) as
Veronica jacquinii ssp. orbiculata (= austriaca ssp. orbiculata).

Congratulations Maggi, you were quite close!

Title: Re: Veronica ident
Post by: Maggi Young on September 24, 2013, 04:22:32 PM

Thanks, Herbert - good to know I was on the right track! :)