British NVC community OV7 (Veronica persica - Veronica polita community) is one of the open habitat communities in the British National Vegetation Classification system. It is one of eight arable weed and wasteland communities of fertile loams and clays.
It is a widespread community.
There are no subcommunities.
The following constant species are found in this community:
There are no rare species associated with the community.
This is a weed community that is associated with annual arable crops on light, well-drained, fertile soils, typically occurring patchily within and at the edges of such crops. It occurs widely in southern and eastern Britain and locally in coastal arable fields elsewhere.
This community is essentially the same as the Veronico - Lamietum hybridi assemblage of Kruseman & Vlieger 1939, though Lamium hybridum is not always present in the British community.
Book: Rodwell. John S . Maritime communities and vegetation of open habitats. British Plant Communities. 5. March 2000. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-39167-2.
Kruseman. G. Vlieger, J. 1939. Akkerassociaties in Nederland. Nederlandsch Kruidkundig Archief. Nederlandsche Botanische Vereeniging. Utrecht. 49. 327–98.