''Veronica alpina'', the alpine speedwell or alpine veronica, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''
Veronica'', native to Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Svalbard, most of Europe, parts of Siberia, northern Pakistan, the western Himalayas, and Tibet.
It is the namesake of the ''Veronica alpina''
species complex
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, which also includes ''
V.bellidioides'', ''
V.copelandii'', ''
V.cusickii'', ''
V.nipponica'', ''
V.nutans'', ''
V.stelleri'' and ''
V.wormskjoldii''.
References
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alpina
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Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Plants described in 1753