Definition of Field speedwell

1. Noun. European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America.

Exact synonyms: Veronica Agrestis
Group relationships: Genus Veronica
Generic synonyms: Speedwell, Veronica

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Speedwell

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field scabious
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field shaping coils
field shift
field shifts
field soybean
field spaniel
field sparrow
field speedwell (current term)
field sport
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field strength unit
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Literary usage of Field speedwell

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. British and Garden Botany: Consisting of Descriptions of the Flowering by Leo Hartley Grindon (1864)
"SPIKED field speedwell—Veron'ica arven'sis. Dry fields, especially among clover; upon old walls, where there is loose earth; and very frequent as a weed in ..."

2. A Flora of Shropshire by W[illiam] A[llport] Leighton (1841)
"Green procumbent field speedwell. Stem procumbent ; leaves petiolate, cordato-ovate, inciso-serrate, longer than the flower-stalk ; calyx-segments oblong, ..."

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