| Family | PLANTAGINACEAE |
| Genus species | Veronica montana L. |
| Bibliography | Cent. Pl. I: 3 (1755) |
| Native Range | Europe to Caucasus, nw. Africa |
| Primary Biome | Temperate |
| Habitat | thickets and woods |
| Description | rooting, leaves sessile, long petiolate, ovate, shallowly cordate, crenate-serrate, adpressed hirsute, racemes laterlal, long pedunculate, sparse, corolla ca. 1cm |
| Size | 15-20cm |
| Color | pale blue-violet |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | perennial |
| Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
| Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C division after flowering; cuttings in late summer |
| Synonyms | Cardia montana (L.) Dulac Coerulinia montana (L.) Fourr. Veronica montana var. denticulata Sennen & Elias Veronica subbiscutata |
| Territory | 1 Europe 10 Northern Europe (DEN Denmark, GRB Great Britain, IRE Ireland, SWE Sweden) 11 Middle Europe (AUT Austria, BGM Belgium, CZE Czechoslovakia, GER Germany, HUN Hungary, NET Netherlands, POL Poland, SWI Switzerland) 12 Southwestern Europe (COR Corse, FRA France, POR Portugal, SPA Spain) 13 Southeastern Europe (ALB Albania, BUL Bulgaria, GRC Greece, ITA Italy, ROM Romania, TUE Turkey-in-Europe, YUG Yugoslavia) 14 Eastern Europe (BLR Belarus, BLT Baltic States, UKR Ukraine) 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (ALG Algeria, TUN Tunisia) 3 Asia-Temperate 33 Caucasus (NCS North Caucasus, TCS Transcaucasus) 34 Western Asia (TUR Turkey) |