1660 Veronica persica Pair.

This species is considered to originate from W. Asia. From there it has spread widely over mast of Europe and also to S. Africa, E. Asia, N. America, S. Australia and New Zealand. The present distribution is dicontinuous circumpolar (Hultén, Circumpol. Il, p. 212 and map 204). Cf. also Meusel et al. 1978, map p. 398.