Brooklime

Brooklime health benefits (Veronica beccabunga Fam. Scrophulariaceae)
Popular names: cow cress, water pimpernel.

Brooklime
Scientific Name: Veronica beccabunga L.
Synonym:
Family: Scrophulariaceae ...

( Brooklime )
Veronica beccabunga bears saucer-shaped, white center blue flowers in loose, erect racemes from late spring to late summer. Usally evergreen with fleshy stems, rooting at the nodes .

American brooklime
Veronica americana
water speedwell
Veronica anagallis-aquatica ...

Brooklime [English]: Veronica americana
Brooklime [English]: Veronica beccabunga
Brookline Rhododendron [English]: Rhododendron 'Brookline'
Brooklyn Rhododendron [English]: Rhododendron 'Brooklyn' ...

European speedwell; brooklime Veronica beccabunga
European spindle tree Euonymus europaea
European stinging nettle Urtica dioica
European swallow-wort Cynanchum rossicum
European water-clover; water shamrock Marsilea quadrifolia ...

In Seattle it is found almost only in mucky soils, sun or often shaded, along with buttercups, skunk cabbages, salmonberries, bigleaf avens and American Brooklime. Late summer and fall is the best time to find it.

in Europe, Northern Asia and North America and abundant in many parts of England, though only naturalized in Scotland. It grows freely around the margins of lakes or streams and in watery ditches, in company with the forget-me-not, brooklime, ...

See also: Green, Veronica, Pink, Violet, Orange