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field speedwell

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Noun1.field speedwell - European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalksfield speedwell - European plant with minute axillary blue flowers on long stalks; widely naturalized in America
Veronica agrestis
genus Veronica - widespread genus of herbs with pink or white or blue or purple flowers: speedwell
speedwell, veronica - any plant of the genus Veronica
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For example, the seeds of field speedwell can survive in the ground for over thirty years and even groundsel seeds can lie dormant for up to three years.
What Is a Weed? Know Your Enemy by Finley Bradfield / Home improvement and landscaping community
Nature seems to produce yellow and blue flower combinations more than any other colour combination and the soft blue flowers of the common field speedwell, Veronica persica, complement the celandines flowers perfectly.
Nature still does it best! by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
The next most frequent broad-leaved weeds identified by farmers were mayweed (infesting 86pc of winter wheat), chickweed (infesting 82pc of the crop), charlock (75pc of the total crop), common field speedwell (69pc), fat hen (68pc), volunteer oilseed rape (68pc), field pansy (65pc) common poppy (60pc), knotgrass (59pc) and groundsel (58pc).
Cleavers still rated as the king of the weeds says survey by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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