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DESCRIPTION:Thymeleaf speedwell is
a perennial broadleaf weed. Its stems are mostly creeping and root
at nodes giving it the ability to grow into dense mats. It is found
in wastelands, fertile fields, gardens, and lawns. Its cotyledons are
spatulate to ovate in shape. The first true leaves are opposite, sessile,
lack hairs, and have a smooth margin. Older leaves can be more elliptic
or ovate in shape and regularly dentate. Lower leaves have a smooth
or fine-toothed margin, are opposite, oval to roundish in shape, and
borne on a short petiole. Upper leaves are alternate, sessile, and smaller
than the lower leaves, and oval to elliptic in shape.
The four-petaled flowers of thymeleaf speedwell, borne on stalks,
are pale blue-white with darker blue stripes. Seed pods are heart shaped,
smooth, and have a notched top.
It reproduces by seed and rooting stems.
Broadleaf ID illustration.
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