Veronica peregrina subsp. xalapensis

Purslane speedwell, Purslane Speedwell

Family: Plantaginaceae · Type: annual · Native

Purslane speedwell is a California native annual found in the California Floristic Province, Southeastern Great Basin, and Desert regions in moist habitats at elevations up to 3,100 meters. Flowering from April to August, this plant produces small white to pale blue flowers less than 3 millimeters long. Growing with erect and generally branched stems 5 to 30 centimeters tall, it develops a distinctive taproot and is often glandular-hairy. Its lower leaves are somewhat spoon-shaped and oblong, ranging 5 to 25 millimeters long, with edges that are entire or slightly serrate. The fruit is a small obovate structure 3 to 4 millimeters long with a shallow notch at the tip.

Habitat: Moist places

Bloom period: Apr-Aug

Elevation: < 3100 m

Bioregions: CA-FP, SNE, D (uncommon)

California counties: Lassen, San Bernardino, Sonoma, Riverside, Monterey, Contra Costa, Colusa, Butte, Yuba, Sutter, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego, Tulare, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Tuolumne, Siskiyou, Modoc, Plumas, Sacramento, Inyo, Santa Clara, Mono, Kern, Alpine, El Dorado, Calaveras, San Joaquin, Sierra, Shasta, Merced, Fresno, Mendocino, Tehama, Glenn, Nevada, Placer, Solano, Stanislaus, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Napa, Amador, Humboldt, Madera, Lake, Santa Cruz, Del Norte, Trinity, Marin, Ventura, Alameda, Mariposa, Imperial, Yolo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.