Accepted name: Veronica ×franciscana
A hybrid, H. elliptica × H. speciosa.
Dense, rounded shrub to over 1 m tall with waxy stems. Leaves to about 6 cm long and 2.5 cm wide, obovate to elliptic, fleshy, blunt but with a small point at the tip. Flower clusters cylindrical, to about 7 cm long; summer to autumn. Flowers large, purplish pink. [H. lobelioides hort.]
Generally grown as the cultivar H. 'Blue Gem'.
Heenan (1994b)
Source: (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Shrub to 2 m or so tall with large, white-tubed, violet flowers to 1.2 cm wide.
Raised in 1868 by H.W.Warren, nurserymen of Salisbury, UK, who found it growing as a self-sown seedling. Introduced to commerce by Cripps Nursery.
It is possible that other clones with bluer flowers are available under this name but more research is required to determine their origin.
Plants sold as Veronica lobelioides possibly belong here.
