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Cat-tailed speedwell and other catty flowers

09.07.2009 - 15:32 |  Looduskalender
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
 
Spiked speedwell.
  
With a paler tip, quite as real cats’ tails often have, the cat-tailed spiked speedwell, (Veronica spicata)  now shows its blue flowers everywhere in meadows and hay fields. It can grow near other cat-named plants: “cat’s clover” (hare’s-foot clover, Trifolium arvense), and “cat’s paw” (mountain everlasting, Antennaria dioica). All three plants have rather nicely descriptive names. The first is like a fluffy tail, the second has beige flower tufts as soft as fur, and the pale greyish-pink flowerhead of the third reminds of a cat’s paw.
The spiked speedwell can be confused with its relative, the garden speedwell, Veronica longifolia. But the flowerhead of the latter is not a fluffy tail, but rather reminds of the tail of a cat somewhat the worse for wear, missing hairs at the top and bottom. The spiked speedwell has an evenly-flowered „tail”.
Note for non-Estonians:
The spiked speedwell, hare’s-foot clover, and mountain everlasting is a cat-named trio in Estonian - kassisaba (cat’s tail), kassiristik (cat’s clover) and kassikäpp (cat’s paw).

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