Scientific name: Veronica filiformis Sm.
Common name: Slender Speedwell
Description
Habit: A hairy perennial.
Stems: Slender and creeping or trailing stems, rooting, to 50 cm long.
Leaves: Opposite, short-stalked, without stipules, 5 mm wide, undivided, round or kidney-shaped, bluntly toothed.
Flowers: Blue, nearly actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 9-12 mm across, solitary in leaf axils, on long and slender flower stalks; calyx deeply 4-lobed; corolla slightly irregularly 4-lobed, with a very short tube; stamens 2, borne on corolla tube; ovary superior, 2-celled, style 1.
Fruits: A capsule not formed in Ireland.
Habitat: Grassy roadsides.Distribution: Occasional in Galway, not recorded elsewhere.
Native status: Not native; naturalised
Of conservation interest: No