Veronica orientalis
Veronica orientalis
Gözmumcuğu
Perennial, 7-45 cm, woody at base to suffruticose, usually strongly branched at base, stems suberect, ascending, decumbent or shortly repent, puberulent or pubescent with 0,05-0,5 mm eglandular hairs, rarely glabrous. Leaves subsessile, 6-40 x 1-13 mm, apex acute to rounded, base usually ± cuneate, puberulent or shortly pubescent with 0,05-0,4 mm eglandular hairs or glabrous; lower leaves lanceolate, elliptic, broadly lanceolate-ovate or suborbicular, margin flat or slightly revolute; coarsely . ± remotely serrate, rarely crenate or subentire, with 2-6 teeth per side; upper leaves narrower, linear or linear-Ianceolate, margin distinctly revolute, entire. Axils of leaves often with linear-leaved initials of lateral branches. Racemes 1-6, ± opposite, 3-10 cm, 10-50-flowered, axis and pedicels puberulent or pubescent with always eglandular hairs, peduncle 2-5 cm. Pedicels 2-9 mm, 0,4-2 x bracts. Calyx 2-4 mm, lobes 4-5, linear to oblong-lanceolate, pubescent, puberulent or glabrous. Corolla blue, pink or white, 7-12 mm diam. Style 2.5-5 mm. Capsule obcordate, 2,5-4 x 4-6 mm, subequalling calyx, puberulent or glabrous, with rather shallow sinus, base ± cuneate. Seeds c. 2-10, ovate to suborbicular, c. 1-2,5 x 1-1,5 mm, convex, rugose. Fl. 4-7. Forests, scrub, steppe, pastures, meadows, calcareous and igneous slopes and scree, fallow fields, yards, castle ruins and wet places, 850-3050 m.
1. Hairs of stem, leaves and racemes retrorse to curved downwards, 0,05-0,2 mm; leaves densely pubescent, ± greyish subsp. carduchorum
1. Hairs of stem, leaves and racemes curved upwards or ± crisp
2. Stems and racemes with dense ± patent ± crisp 0,2-0,7 mm hairs; leaves densely pubescent , with upward-curved or slightly crisp 0,2-0,4 mm hairs; often ± blackening when dry subsp. nimrodi
2. Stems and racemes with upward-curved, usually ± adpressed 0,05-0,3 mm hairs or glabrous; leaves sparsely puberulent, often only near margin, with upward curved ± adpressed 0,05-0,2 mm hairs or especially lower often glabrous, often ± glaucous subsp. orientalis
Distribution of species: Transcaucasia, N. Iraq, N. Iran, Syria, Lebanon. Ir.Tur. element.
