Veronica persica

Sprawling to erect annual; stems to c. 30 cm long, pilose or with scattered long, soft hairs. Leaves broad-ovate to elliptic, 4–22 mm long, 3–23 mm wide, apex obtuse to rounded, base cuneate or subcordate, margins coarsely toothed, pilose; petiole to 5(–10) mm long. Flowers solitary in axils of leaf-like bracts; pedicels often recurved, 20–40 mm long in fruit. Calyx-lobes 5–9 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide in fruit, ciliate; corolla 2–6 mm long, blue or bluish-white. Capsule oblong, 4–5 mm long, 5.5–10 mm wide, emarginate, prominently veined, margin ciliate; style 1.8–3 mm long. Flowers winter and spring.