Plantaginaceae FAMILY

Veronica agrestis

Edibility

1/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Veronica agrestis is an annual, branching profusely from the base and growing 5 - 30cm tall, occasionally to 40cm, The stems are ascending to decumbent, often rooting at the nodes[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ]. The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use as a food and a medicine. The plant has spread as a weed to many areas of the temperate zone.

Habitat & Origin

Origintemperate

Native RangeEurope - Norway to Portugal, east to European Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Greece; N. Africa - Macaronesia, Morocco to Libya; W. Asia- Israel, Jordan

HabitatCultivated ground throughout Britain, common in the north, local in the south[ 17 Title Flora of the British Isles. Publication Author Clapham, Tutin and Warburg. Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 1962 ISBN - Description A very comprehensive flora, the standard reference book but it has no pictures. ]. A weed in fields, gardens, kitchen gardens, in forest and forest-steppe zones; rarely in mixed-grass area in foothills and mountains at elevations up to 1,800 metres[ 74 Title Flora of the USSR. Publication Author Komarov. V. L. Website http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org Publisher Israel Program for Scientific Translation Year 1968 ISBN - Description An immense (25 or more large volumes) and not yet completed translation of the Russian flora. Full of information on plant uses and habitats but heavy going for casual readers. It can be downloaded from the Internet. ],