Veronica, Koch. Perennial. Flowers

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 250-251

Sect. Pseudolysimachium Koch. Perennial. Flowers in dense, many-flowered terminal racemes, spikes or panicles. Corollatube longer than wide. Capsule ovoid to suborbicular, only slightly compressed, scarcely emarginate, dehiscing loculicidally only at apex. Seeds c. 1 mm, relatively thick, smooth, with convex back, flat chalazal face, and excentric chalaza.

Most of the possible hybrids in this section have been arti­ ficially produced, and those from parents with the same chromosome number are highly fertile.