Common Name: ivy leaf speedwellScientific Name: Veronica hederifoliaFamily Name: Scrophulariaceae - Figwort FamilyIdentification NotesLife Cycleintroduced winter or summer annual, reproducing by seed Stemsprostrate with weakly ascending tips, branched at base, scattered hairs Leavesopposite below and alternate in flowering stem, broadly round, bases square or slightly heart-shaped, 3-5 lobed or toothed, scattered hairs above and below, resemble an ivy leaf Flowers4-petaled, light blue with darker blue lines, small, long stalked; axillary, solitary Seed Podsheart-shaped, smooth, covered by hairy sepals, round or flat at top, short style