Veronica persicaPoir.

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WFO wfo-0000425859 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Veronica persica, photographed by Matthew Vosper
fig. a Matthew Vosper, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204497439
Veronica persica, photographed by mefisher
fig. b mefisher, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205024451
Veronica persica, photographed by Zeke Marshall
fig. c Zeke Marshall, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205814334
Veronica persica, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. d Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205531673
Veronica persica, photographed by Tom Field
fig. e Tom Field, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205643054
Veronica persica, photographed by Neal Kelso
fig. f Neal Kelso, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202455329
Veronica persica, photographed by Daniel Cahen
fig. g Daniel Cahen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 202815995
Veronica persica, photographed by Randy A Nonenmacher
fig. h Randy A Nonenmacher, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205024717

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 13,523 observations

Peak flowering in Mar, from 13,523 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 24 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cardia filiformis Dulac
  • Pocilla persica (Poir.) Fourr.
  • Veronica alpiphila Arv.-Touv.
  • Veronica areolata Colenso
  • Veronica buxbaumii Ten.
  • Veronica buxbaumii var. kochiana Godr.
  • Veronica byzantina Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
  • Veronica cymbalariifolia F.W.Schmidt
  • Veronica diffusa Raf.
  • Veronica filiformis DC.
  • Veronica hospita Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
  • Veronica meskhetica Kem.-Nath.
  • Veronica persica var. aschersoniana (E.B.J.Lehm.) Drabble & J.E.Little
  • Veronica persica var. corrensiana (E.B.J.Lehm.) Stroh
  • Veronica persica var. minor Sennen & Elías
  • Veronica persica var. persica
  • Veronica precox Raf.
  • Veronica tournefortii C.C.Gmel.
  • Veronica tournefortii subsp. aschersoniana E.B.J.Lehm.
  • Veronica tournefortii subsp. corrensiana E.B.J.Lehm.
  • Veronica tournefortii subsp. restrictior P.Fourn.
  • Veronica tournefortii var. albiflora Bolzon
  • Veronica tournefortii var. aschersoniana (E.B.J.Lehm.) Hayek & Hegi
  • Veronica tournefortii var. corrensiana (E.B.J.Lehm.) Hayek & Hegi

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.