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§1 Plant
Veronica americana Schwein. ex Benth.
vernacular American speedwell — species · Scrophulariaceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Scrophulariaceae Juss.
- Genus
- Veronica
§2a
Native status, by region
- AK Alaska Native
- CAN Canada Native
- L48 Lower 48 States Native
- SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 314 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation specs · USDA
Recorded by the USDA Plant Materials Program.
§3a
Tolerances
- Drought
- Low
- Shade
- Low
- Moisture use
- High
- Fire
- High
- Salinity
- None
- Anaerobic
- Medium
- CaCO₃
- Medium
- Hedging
- None
§3b
Climate & soil
- Cold tolerance
- -38 °F minimum
- Frost-free days
- 100 min.
- Precipitation
- 16–60 in/yr
- pH range
- 5.7–7.5
- Root depth
- 6 in min.
- Fertility need
- Medium
- Soil texture
- medium, fine
§3c
Form & growth
- Growth form
- Rhizomatous
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Lifespan
- Short
- Mature height
- 0.8 ft
- Foliage texture
- Fine
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Porosity (summer)
- Porous
- Porosity (winter)
- Porous
- Flower colour
- Blue
- Fruit colour
- Yellow
- Fire resistant
- Yes
- N fixation
- None
- Toxicity
- None
§3d
Reproduction
- Bloom period
- Mid Summer
- Seed abundance
- Medium
- Seed begins
- Summer
- Seed ends
- Fall
- Spread rate
- Slow
- Stratify
- No
- Seeds / lb
- 300,000
- Propagation
- seed, cuttings, bare root, sprigs
§3e
Use & availability
- Commercial availability
- Routinely Available
- Nursery stock
- Yes
- Browse palatability
- Medium
- Graze palatability
- Low
- Palatable, human
- No
- Lumber
- No
- Christmas tree
- No
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 314 counties across 22 states/territories.
Alaska view state ↗ 16 N ▾
Arizona view state ↗ 8 N ▾
Arkansas view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Delaware view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 3 N ▾
Iowa view state ↗ 1 N ▾
Kansas view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Maine view state ↗ 12 N ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 7 N ▾
Minnesota view state ↗ 26 N ▾
- Becker 27005
- Carver 27019
- Cass 27021
- Chisago 27025
- Clearwater 27029
- Cook 27031
- Douglas 27041
- Fillmore 27045
- Goodhue 27049
- Hennepin 27053
- Houston 27055
- Hubbard 27057
- Kandiyohi 27067
- Lake 27075
- Lake of the Woods 27077
- Pine 27115
- Polk 27119
- Pope 27121
- Ramsey 27123
- Rice 27131
- Scott 27139
- St. Louis 27137
- Stearns 27145
- Washington 27163
- Winona 27169
- Wright 27171
Montana view state ↗ 18 N ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 6 N ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 13 N ▾
New York view state ↗ 47 N ▾
- Albany 36001
- Allegany 36003
- Broome 36007
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Chautauqua 36013
- Chemung 36015
- Chenango 36017
- Cortland 36023
- Delaware 36025
- Dutchess 36027
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Genesee 36037
- Greene 36039
- Hamilton 36041
- Herkimer 36043
- Jefferson 36045
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- Niagara 36063
- Oneida 36065
- Onondaga 36067
- Ontario 36069
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Rockland 36087
- Saratoga 36091
- Schenectady 36093
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Steuben 36101
- Suffolk 36103
- Sullivan 36105
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Washington 36115
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 4 N ▾
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 60 N ▾
- Adams 42001
- Allegheny 42003
- Armstrong 42005
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Berks 42011
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Cameron 42023
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Columbia 42037
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Dauphin 42043
- Delaware 42045
- Elk 42047
- Erie 42049
- Fayette 42051
- Forest 42053
- Franklin 42055
- Fulton 42057
- Greene 42059
- Huntingdon 42061
- Indiana 42063
- Jefferson 42065
- Juniata 42067
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lebanon 42075
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- Lycoming 42081
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Northumberland 42097
- Philadelphia 42101
- Pike 42103
- Potter 42105
- Schuylkill 42107
- Snyder 42109
- Somerset 42111
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Union 42119
- Venango 42121
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Tennessee view state ↗ 6 N ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 13 N ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 31 N ▾
- Albemarle 51003
- Amherst 51009
- Arlington 51013
- Augusta 51015
- Bath 51017
- Bedford 51019
- Botetourt 51023
- Buchanan 51027
- Campbell 51031
- Fairfax 51059
- Floyd 51063
- Giles 51071
- Grayson 51077
- Greene 51079
- Highland 51091
- Loudoun 51107
- Louisa 51109
- Madison 51113
- Montgomery 51121
- Nelson 51125
- Page 51139
- Pulaski 51155
- Rappahannock 51157
- Rockbridge 51163
- Rockingham 51165
- Shenandoah 51171
- Smyth 51173
- Tazewell 51185
- Warren 51187
- Washington 51191
- Wise 51195
West Virginia view state ↗ 23 N ▾
- Brooke 54009
- Cabell 54011
- Grant 54023
- Greenbrier 54025
- Hampshire 54027
- Hancock 54029
- Hardy 54031
- Jefferson 54037
- Marshall 54051
- Mercer 54055
- Mineral 54057
- Monongalia 54061
- Ohio 54069
- Pendleton 54071
- Pocahontas 54075
- Preston 54077
- Randolph 54083
- Summers 54089
- Tucker 54093
- Webster 54101
- Wetzel 54103
- Wood 54107
- Wyoming 54109
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/VEAM2 ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3172084 ↗Record version
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