Water Speedwell is a fibrous-rooted, biennial or short-lived perennial
plant, more or less erect, 20-100 cm tall. The plant is hairless
throughout, or slightly glandular-short-hairy among the flowers. Leaves
are oppositely arranged, mostly elliptic or elliptic-ovate to elliptic-
oblong, stalkless and mostly stem-clasping, mostly 2-10 cm long and 0.7-5
cm wide, 1.5-3 times as long as wide, sharply saw-toothed to entire.
Sterile, autumnal shoots have more rounded and stalked leaves. Flowers are
borne many in elongated, long-stalked clusters, arising in leaf axils.
Sepals are highly variable in form and size. Flowers are pale blue with
darker nerves, about 5 mm wide. The flower stalks in fruit generally
strongly ascending, or upcurved, 3-8 mm long. Fruit is a capsule, swollen,
2.5-4 mm long. Water Speedwell is found in the Himalayas, at altitudes of
1500-4000 m. Flowering: June-September.
Identification credit: Gurcharan Singh
Photographed in Delhi.
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