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Many speedwells still remain in fine condition, notably Veronica longifolia; they are a hardy and a showy race of plants, and will grow anywhere.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881 by Various

Among them are purple, yellow, pink, and white primulas, golden potentillas, gentians of deepest azure, delicate anemones, speedwells, fritillaries, oxalis, balsams, and ranunculus.

From The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty by Younghusband, Francis Edward, Sir

The fields were white with moon-daisies, growing among the long, lush grass; and all the roadsides were a tangle of vetches, campion, bugle, trefoil and speedwells.

From The Manor House School by Dixon, Arthur A.

"When I haven't got you with me," he said, "I have to pretend that the speedwells are your eyes, and that the dog-roses are your cheeks."

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

There is a wealth of wild flowers everywhere—blue-eyed speedwells, the yellow celandine, the crimson of clover, the ragged robin, and ox-eye daisies weeping dew.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Stables, Gordon