 Veronica allionii
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- common names: speedwell
- flowering season: summer
- height: 4 - 6 inch tall flowers, leaves lower
- Light requirements: sun; afternoon shade where summers are very warm
- Soil requirements: average, well drained
- Water requirments: average
- Growth habit: low and spreading, but not invasive
- How to propagate: dividing in early summer
- Leaf type: dark green, oval leaves up to 1-inch long
- Ways to use it: a good addition to a rock garden or at the front of taller flowers in a planting bed
- Special characteristics: undemanding and long lived
Very low and moderately spreading is this veronica. The dark green leaves grow into a low mat to twelve inches wide in several years. In July, four-inch to six-inch spikes of purple flowers appear. They last many weeks. Being so low this is useful at the front of a flower bed or in a rock garden. The upright flowers offer a nice contrast to plants in the garden that are rounded and bushy in shape. Hardy to USDA Zone 3, possibly to Zone 2. |
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