The Veronicaceae or Speedwell family used to be part of the Scrophulariaceae as you can find out in the last post.
In Stace we can find that the Veronicaceae is now a family with 11 genera of which 4 genera are individually very distinctive.
Some authorities, however, including R.B.G. Kew, the R.H.S., Wikipedia, etc have most of these genera in the Plantaginaceae.
The Plantaginaceae is a much shorter family in Stace, which you can read about in an earlier post.
I am using various good websites for you to find out more on each individual plant. The links on the scientific mames are usually from the Online Atlas of the British and Irish Flora, the links on the common names are from Wikipedia or preferably a U.K. website.
Pictures, with gratitude are again by Mike Poulton (M.P.), Rudi Pilsel (R.P.), Matt Summers (M.S.) and Wikipedia Commons.
FBBC is added behind the plant names in the contents below, when the plants occur in the Flora of Birmingham and the Black Country.
Comparing some of the members in the Veronicaceae as seen in the Concise British Flora in Colour by W. Keble Martin:
Contents:
Digitalis purpurea or Foxglove FBBC
D. lutea or Straw Foxglove (Neophyte)
Erinus alpinus or Fairy Foxglove (Neophyte) FBBC
Veronica ssp or Speedwells
This large genus with 33 species described in Stace is divided in ten subgenera:
Subgenus 1: Veronica
- V. officinalis or Heath Speedwell FBBC
- V. alpina or Alpine Speedwell
- V. montana or Wood Speedwell FBBC
- V. scutellata or Marsh Speedwell FBBC
Subgenus 2: Beccabunga
- V. beccabunga or Brooklime FBBC
- V. anagallis-aquatica or Blue Water-speedwell FBBC?
- V. x lackschewitzii or Hybrid Water-speedwell
- V. catenata or Pink Water-speedwell FBBC
- V. acinifolia or French Speedwell (Neophyte)
- V. peregrina or American Speedwell (Neophyte)
- V. serpyllifolia or Thyme-leaved Speedwell + 3 subspecies FBBC (subsp. serpyllifolia)
- V. repens or Corsican Speedwell (Neophyte)
Subgenus 3: Pseudolysimachium
- V. longifolia or Garden Speedwell (Neophyte) FBBC
- V. spicata or Spiked Speedwell FBBC
Subgenus 4: Cochlidiosperma
- V. hederifolia or Ivy-leaved Speedwell + 2 subspecies FBBC
- V. crista-gallii or Crested Field-speedwell (Neophyte) FBBC
Subgenus 5: Pellidosperma
- V. praecox or Breckland Speedwell (Neophyte)
- V. triphyllos or Fingered Speedwell (Archaeophyte)
Subgenus 6: Stenocarpon
- V. fruticans or Rock Speedwell
Subgenus 7: Pocilla
- V. filiformis or Slender Speedwell (Neophyte) FBBC
- V. agrestis or Green Field-speedwell (Archaeophte) FBBC
- V. polita or Grey Field-speedwell FBBC
- V. persica or Common Field-speedwell (Neophyte) FBBC
Subgenus 8: Pentasepalae
- V. teucrium or Large Speedwell (Neophyte)
Subgenus 9: Chamaedrys
- V. chamaedrys or Germander Speedwell FBBC
- V. arvensis or Wall Speedwell FBBC
- V. verna or Spring Speedwell
Subgenus 10: Pseudoveronica formerly known as Hebe (Neophytes)
- V. salicifolia or Koromiko FBBC
- V. x lewisii or Lewis’s Hebe
- V. x franciscana or Hedge Veronica
- V. brachysiphon or Hooker’s Hebe FBBC
- V. dieffenbachii or Dieffenbach’s Hebe FBBC
- V. barkeri or Barker’s Hebe
Sibthorpia europaea or Cornish Moneywort
Antirrhinum majus or Snapdragon (Neophyte) FBBC
Chaenorhinum origanifolium or Malling Toadflax (Neophyte)
- C. minus or Small Toadflax (Archaeophyte) FBBC
Misopates orontium or Weasel’s-snout (Archaeophyte) FBBC
- M. calycinum or Pale Weasel’s-snout (Neophyte)
Asarina procumbens or Trailing Snapdragon (Neophyte)
Cymbalaria muralis or Ivy-leaved Toadflax + 2 subspecies (Neophyte) FBBC
- C. pallida or Italian Toadflax (Neophyte) FBBC
- C. herpaticifolia or Corsican Toadflax (Neophyte)
Kickxia elatina or Sharp-leaved Fluellen (Archaeophyte)
- K. spuria or Round-leaved Fluellen (Archaeophyte)
Linaria spp or Toadflaxes
- Linaria vulgaris or Common Toadflax FBBC
- L. x sepium (L. vulgaris x L. repens) FBBC
- L. dalmatica or Balkan Toadflax (Neophyte)
- L. purpurea or Purple Toadflax (Neophyte) FBBC
- L. x dominii (L. purpurea x L. repens) FBBC
- L. repens or Pale Toadflax (Archaeophyte) FBBC
- L. supina or Prostrate Toadflax
- L. arenaria or Sand Toadflax (Neophyte)
- L. pelisseriana or Jersey Toadflax
- L. maroccana or Annual Toadflax (Neophyte) FBBC