Veronica cana Wall. ex Benth.

Perennials, 20-25 cm tall. Stems erect or ascending, simple, densely villous with gray-white multicellular hairs. Leaves 4 or 5 pairs; lower leaves petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade shallowly cordate to deltoid-orbicular, smaller than upper leaves; upper leaves shorter petioled, leaf blade ovate-orbicular to ovate, 2.5-4 X 1.5-3 cm; all leaves papery, sparsely with gray-white hairs, base rounded, margin coarsely dentate, apex mostly obtuse. Racemes usually paired, axillary from uppermost leaves, 3-7 cm, lax, axis and pedicels villous with multicellular hairs; peduncle 1-2 cm; bracts broadly linear, almost as long as pedicel. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes lanceolate, 3-5 mm, subequal, glabrous or sparsely ciliate. Corolla white, rotate, ca. 1.2 cm in diam.; tube less than 1.5 mm; throat hairy. Capsule deltoid-flabelliform, strongly compressed, ca. 5 X 9-10 mm, base subtruncate or with an angle greater than 120°, margin apically sparsely glandular ciliate, emarginate. Style 2-3 mm. Seeds 2-10 per locule, flattened, slightly convex. Fl. Jun.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), S. Tibet, W. China.

S Xizang, NW Yunnan [Bhutan, India, Kashmir, Nepal, Sikkim].

2300-2500 m

Forests; 2000-3500 m.

Veronica cana là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Mã đề. Loài này được Wall. ex Benth. miêu tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1835.

灰毛婆婆纳（学名：Veronica cana），为車前草科婆婆纳属下的一个植物种。