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Common field-speedwell

Veronica persica

Importance

Common in winter cereals. Germinates in spring and autumn.

1. A large seeding with spade-shaped, hairy cotyledons.

2. The first true leaf is hairy and regularly toothed.

3. A prostrate annual with small blue flowers which dies away in mid-summer © Alamy Ltd

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