Veronica copelandii

Eastwood

Bot. Gaz. 41: 288, fig. 2. 1906.

Common names: Copeland's speedwell
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 310. Mentioned on page 307.

Perennials. Stems ascending, unbranched, 5–15 cm, densely glandular-hairy. Leaves: blade oblongelliptic, (5–) 10–15 (–35) × 4–8 mm, base cuneate, margins entire, apex short-acuminate, surfaces hairy. Racemes 1, terminal, distalmost leaves often with 1 or 2 axillary flowers, 10–80 mm, (3–) 5–15-flowered, axis glandular-hairy; bracts lanceolate, 3–5 mm. Pedicels erect, 5–8 mm, equal to ± longer than subtending bract, densely glandular-hairy. Flowers: calyx 4 (or 5) -lobed, lobes (1–) 2–3 mm, apex obtuse, glandular-hairy; corolla pale blue to purple, rotate, 8–10 mm diam.; stamens 4–5 mm; style 7 mm. Capsules compressed in cross-section, broadly oblong, 5–6 × 3.5 mm, longer than wide, apex emarginate, glandular-hairy. Seeds number unknown, brown, ovoid, flat, 1–1.2 × 0.7–1.1 mm, thickness and texture unknown. 2n = 18.


Phenology: Flowering Jul–Aug.
Habitat: Subalpine meadows, alpine slopes.
Elevation: 1900–2500 m.

Discussion

Veronica copelandii is sister to V. cusickii in the phylogenetic analysis by D. C. Albach et al. (2006). It occurs in the Klamath Ranges of northwestern California.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
... more about "Veronica copelandii"
glandular-hairy +
obtuse +  and short-acuminate +
Dirk C. Albach +
Eastwood +
glandular-hairy +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
cuneate +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br />) +
oblongelliptic +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
lanceolate +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
4-lobed +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
longer than wide +
oblong +  and compressed +
3.5 cm35 mm <br />0.035 m <br /> (?) +
darker +, reddish +  and lighter +
Copeland's speedwell +
pale blue +  and purple +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
drupe-like +
1900–2500 m. +
curved +  and straight +
Subalpine meadows, alpine slopes. +
axillary +  and terminal +
alternate +  and opposite +
persistent +  and deciduous +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
linear;suborbiculate or triangular-cordate +
palmatifid +, pinnatifid +  and lobed +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
more or less longer +
glandular-hairy +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
5 +  and 4 +
Flowering Jul–Aug. +
minute +
0.7mm;1.1mm +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
climbing +  and scrambling +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
glandular-hairy +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
pointed +  and capitate +
7 cm70 mm <br />0.07 m <br /> (?) +
Veronica copelandii +
Veronica +
species +
gibbous +  and not spurred +
annual +, biennial +  and perennial +
subshrub +  and herb +