Veronica densifolia, is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is a low-growing, spreading plant with pink, white or purple flowers and grows in New South Wales.
Veronica densifolia is a small, tufted, perennial, decussate, prostrate shrub about high and about wide. The leaves mostly crowded, elliptic-shaped, about long, wide, margins with fine hairs, sessile and a blunt apex. The corolla white, pink or purple, long, calyx long and the lobes resembling leaves. Flowering occurs in summer and the fruit is an egg-shaped capsule about long, about wide, margins hairy and notched at the apex.[1] [2]
This was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Paederota densifolia in Definitions of rare or hithertoo undescribed Australian plants.[3] [4] In 1861, von Mueller transferred the species to the genus Veronica as V. densifolia in his Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae.[5] [6] The specific epithet (densifolia) means "thick" and "crowded" in reference to the leaves.[7]
This species grows on stony, windy outcrops and low scrubland in alpine areas of New South Wales.[1]