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Veronica turrilliana is a small perennial speedwell with blue-purple flowers, endemic to the Strandzha mountains of south-eastern Bulgaria and north-western Turkey. It grows on dry limestone rocks and is rare in the wild, so it is not a common garden plant.
Veronica turrilliana (Bulgarian: Търилово великденче) is a species of speedwell in the family Plantaginaceae, endemic to the Strandzha mountain range in south-eastern Bulgaria and north-western Turkey. It is included in the Red Book of Bulgaria as an endangered species. and is categorized as data deficient by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). It was described in 1923 by the Bulgarian botanists Nikolai Stojanov and Boris Stefanoff.
The plant grows on dry limestone rocks and cracks in the Strandzha mountain range in the south-eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in Bulgaria and Turkey, at an altitude of about 200 m (660 ft). It forms fragmented populations made up of a few scattered individuals. Its type locality north of the town of Malko Tarnovo, where the species is described, is destroyed. In Bulgaria Veronica turrilliana is spread in Strandzha Nature Park, where it inhabits the Kovach locality south of the village of Zvezdets, Petrova Niva historic area, the zone around the villages of Stoilovo and Slivarovo, the springs of the Mladezhka river, a tributary of the Veleka, as well as Sredoka and Vitanovo Reserves.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
