Rhizomatous perennial herb to about 0.5 m tall with glandular hairs. Leaves opposite, to about 7 cm long, 3 cm wide, lanceolate to ovate, round-toothed to almost entire, hairy. Flower cluster terminal, dense. Corolla to about 8 mm wide, blue. Stamens purple.
Europe
V. incana L., Silver Speedwell, from E Europe and also flowering in summer, is very similar but is covered with a layer of grey-white hair. [V. spicata L. subsp. incana (L.) Walters]
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.
Flowers white.
To about 30 cm tall. Flowers pink.
Flowers red, in shortened spikes.
To 45 cm tall. Flowers pale pink.