Veronica densifolia
Veronica densifolia, is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is a low-growing, spreading plant with pink, white or purple flowers and grows in New South Wales.
Description
Veronica densifolia is a small, tufted, perennial, decussate, prostrate shrub about high and about wide. The leaves mostly crowded, elliptic-shaped, about long, wide, margins with fine hairs, sessile and a blunt apex. The corolla white, pink or purple, long, calyx long and the lobes resembling leaves. Flowering occurs in summer and the fruit is an egg-shaped capsule about long, about wide, margins hairy and notched at the apex.
Taxonomy and naming
This was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Paederota densifolia in Definitions of rare or hithertoo undescribed Australian plants. In 1861, von Mueller transferred the species to the genus Veronica as V. densifolia in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet means "thick" and "crowded" in reference to the leaves.
This species grows on stony, windy outcrops and low scrubland in alpine areas of New South Wales.