Stats

Lifespan: Perennial
Size: Small
Diet: Photosynthetic
Biome: Temperate grassland
Range: Europe
Movement: Sessile
Breeding: Seeds
Defense: Toxins
Status: Common

About

A small creeping wildflower that carpets lawns and meadows with vivid sky-blue blooms, each barely 1 cm across with a white eye at the centre. Its petals drop so readily that picking a stem often leaves bare stalks within minutes — earning it the folk name "bird's-eye."

Life cycle

1.
seed
A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
2.
sprout
A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
3.
sapling
A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
4.
mature
Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Lamiales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Veronica
Species: Veronica chamaedrys