Veronica syriaca, the Syrian speedwell, is a flowering plant species in the family Plantaginaceae. The generic name of this flower is of unknown origin. Some think it is a distortion of betonica, the Latin name of a species of Labiates; others consider that it refers to Saint Veronica who handed a cloth to Christ to wipe the perspiration from his face.[1]
Annual. pubescent-glandular, 10–30 cm. Leaves ovate, crenulate or dentate.Flowers in loose racemes. Bracts linear, entire. Pedicels filiform, spreading-erect, sometimes recurved at apex. Calyx lobes ovate-Ianceolate, 2–3 mm. Corolla blue and white, 8–15 mm in diameter.
January–May.
Fields, gardens. Coast, lower and middle mountains, eastern slope, Beqaa of Lebanon, Hennon.Syria and Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Turkey.