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Lingmell Beck starts off as Piers Gill, a stream descending from high on the Scafells. It flows right around the northern perimeter of Lingmell before finally entering Wast Water.
Great End is the most northerly mountain in the Scafell chain at 2,986 ft (910 m) and is usually viewed from the head of Borrowdale, which is it's most impressive side. The imposing north eastern cliffs, riven by gullies, rise some 600 ft from the Esk Hause path, the finest being South East Gully, Central Gully and Cust's Gully.
Alfred Wainwright wrote of Great End in his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells: "This is the true Lakeland of the fellwalker, the sort of terrain that calls him back time after time, the sort of memory that haunts his long winter exile. It is not the pretty places - the flowery lanes of Grasmere or Derwentwater's wooded bays - that keep him restless in his bed; it is the magnificent ones. Places like Great End..."
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SOPAC 2.0 in TextMate. I've been using Vim for about 10 years now in console mode. But I really would like to start doing cut-and-paste in a real window (yes, in some ways I'm still stuck in the 1980s). Never really liking GVim or BBEdit, I've been searching around for the right editor and I think I may have found it in TextMate. It's not free ($65), but I really, really like it. I also need to learn all of its in-and-outs and I do miss Vim a little which is a familiar old friend. I kinda feel a little guilty, like I'm cheating on it.
That's called Geek Angst.
lazy. burps. complete. satisfied . random.
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My road trip was alrite. My sister got sick so she vomitted on the three hour drive, really uncool. I'm ranting on my blog about it. hm as promised i have tag some people aye. if you wanna do it then JUST DO IT ! YAYA seriously . you can blame me for making you do it but just do it. i shall have a good time reading it and knowing you all. But i tag more then 10 coz i'm allowed to ! :P
How to play:
Tell your readers 10 things about you that they may or may not know, but are true. Tag ten people and be sure to let them know they’ve been tagged (a quick message will do). Don’t forget to link back to the person who tagged you
If someone i tagged is not going to do this, well then i'm stalking you !! SERIOUS! NO JOKE !
stroh-bil-AN-theez -- cone flower ... Dave's Botanary
kal-OH-sus -- calloused or thick ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: karvy • Gujarati: કારવી karvi, કેરડી keradi, પાંદડી pandadi • Hindi: मरुआदोना maruadona • Kannada: ಕಾರ್ವಿ karvi • Konkani: कारवी karvi • Marathi: कारवी karvi • Rajasthani: कार्वी karvi
botanical names: Strobilanthes callosa Nees ... homotypic synonyms: Carvia callosa (Nees) Bremek. ... heterotypic synonyms: Ruellia callosa Wall. • Strobilanthes grahamiana Wight ... POWO, retrieved 5 September 2025
NOTE: Strobilanthes callosus is an orthographic variant that was used historically, such as in the initial description by Nees, and is still occasionally found in research papers and some older botanical texts.
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Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Goa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan; endemic
Names compiled / updated at Names of Plants in India.
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Nikon D800E + 400 mm f/2.8 @ 800 mm - 1/800 sec at f/8.0, ISO 1100
Aperture priority mode @ 0 EV E.C - Pattern metering - no flash
Subject Distance: unknown
If you can't tell by the background, this was one of many of his flock who decided to flutter off to a better swimming spot a few dozen yards away.
47°38'46" N 122°17'50" W, -2.3 ft
Waterfront Trail, Washington Park Arboretum
Seattle, Washington, United States
Taken on 03.02.2013, uploaded on 03.07.2013.
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pan seared scallops / papas bravas / crispy serrano ham / orange-oregano mojo $32
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Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (UK, Ireland, Australia, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malta, parts of Canada), ladybugs (North America), or lady beetles (preferred by some scientists). Lesser-used names include ladyclock, lady cow, and lady fly.[1]
They are small insects, ranging from 1 mm to 10 mm (0.04 to 0.4 inches), and are commonly yellow, orange, or scarlet with small black spots on their wing covers, with black legs, head and antennae. A very large number of species are mostly or entirely black, grey, or brown and may be difficult for non-entomologists to recognize as coccinellids (and, conversely, there are many small beetles that are easily mistaken as such, like tortoise beetles).
Rue Caillié, Paris 18e. View larger, if you dare!
This Project: Starting in Montmartre . . .
I'm fascinated by the shapes I find in Paris. By the textures, by the combinations. The improbable next to the impossible. In any one day of walking you can find so much variation, so much of interest, such contrast. This was one such day.
January 4, 2009. A day spent strolling and shooting in Paris with Joe Crachiola. We started out at his apartment in Montemarte and ended up around about Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad, where we had to catch a Metro so we could get ready for our evening meal.
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Thousands demonstrated on Friday in Tahrir Square, demanding public trial of Mubarak, his interior ministry Habib el-Adly, and other regime figures.
The square and the surrounding streets since early morning have been emptied from all police and military presence. Most of the established political forces, most notably the Muslim Brothers, did not take part in the demonstrations.
The families of the martyrs were present, and demanded speedy trials of the police murderers, as it's becoming clear day by day that they will get away with what they did. More shockingly, most police officers who are currently undergoing trial still hold their positions (or have been promoted)! Demonstrators also denounced the brutal police crackdown on the protests in the square on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Protesters marched, in solidarity with the detainees, by 4pm on the ministerial cabinet headquarters and the interior ministry. Policemen from inside the interior ministry's compound threw rocks and were making provocative gestures with their hands. Protesters responded by rocks and a shower of insults and chants against both the military and the police.
I've heard very strong chants, demanding the execution of Mubarak, Adly and Field Marshal Tantawi. While some are staging a sit in at the moment, others will resume protesting on Saturday, in the run up to the mass protests planned next Friday 8 July.
About the shot
This was taken during my last Edinburgh Zoo shoot as a non-member. Expect many more photos once I get my membership card. The Capybaras (world's largest rodent) were much more active than I'd ever seen them. After a quick dip in the water, two of them jumped about together. One was pursuing the other more enthusiastically but I wasn't sure if they were siblings playing or if it was perhaps mating/bonding behaviour. The one with its back to the wall was basically saying "go away" I think. :-)
The title comes from the new T-Mobile commercial. If you haven't seen it you must watch it. If this "flash mob" doesn't make you smile, then nothing will.
About Capybaras
Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris), also known as capibara, chigüire in Venezuela, chigüiro, and carpincho in Spanish, and capivara in Portuguese, is the largest living rodent in the world. It is related to agouti, chinchillas, coyphillas, and guinea pigs. Its common name, derived from Kapiÿva in the Guarani language, means "master of the grasses", while its scientific name, hydrochaeris, is Greek for "water hog".
Though now extinct, there once existed a larger capybara called Neochoerus pinckneyi. Other fossil rodents that were eight times the size of modern capybaras (larger than a grizzly bear) have been informally called "capybaras" but were actually dinomyids related to the pacarana. There is also a "lesser capybara", Hydrochoerus isthmius.
Capybaras are social animals, usually found in groups, between 10 and 30 (though larger groups of up to 100 sometimes can be formed), controlled by a dominant male (who will have a prominent scent gland on his nose used for smearing his scent on the grasses in his territory.) They communicate through a combination of scent and sound, being very vocal animals with purrs and alarm barks, whistles and clicks, squeals and grunts.
Capybaras are excellent swimmers and can survive completely underwater for up to five minutes, an ability they will use to evade predators. If necessary, a Capybara can sleep underwater, keeping its nose just at the waterline. During midday, as temperatures increase, Capybaras wallow in water to keep cool and then graze in late afternoons and early evenings. They sleep little, usually dozing off and on throughout the day and grazing into and through the night.
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The Stadium Business Design Summit at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture by Paul Heyes, Tuesday November 30, 2021.
♪♫♫Sirtaki ♪♫♫
Non: Partenoi / Partenon / Παρθενών ( Akropolisa / AKPOΠOΛIΣ ) (Atenas, Grezia)
Where: Parthenon / Παρθενών ( Acropolis / AKPOΠOΛIΣ ) (Athens, Greece)
Noiz / When: 2007-09-12 (08:16 GTM +02:00)
Kamara / Camera: CANON EOS350D
Objetiboa / Lens: CANON EFS 17-85mm (24mm)
ISO: 100
Programa / Program: Manual
Exposizioa / Exposition time: 1/160"
F zenbakia / number F: 9
Software: Photoshop CS2
Argibide gehiago: eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atenaseko_Akropolia [Euskaraz]
More information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens [English]
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New paint software!!! Incredible stuff for $29.99 US dollars. It is head over heal better than Corel painter--I mean significantly better! If you cannot see this in full size, I uploaded this to my website so you can see the incredible textures you can create with this software: www.stantonphotostudios.com/p602592670/h19453a4#h19453a4. This is a photo that I traced... On the picture at my website I have updated it a bit further
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On this picture the only textured are of interest is the center of the Calla lily where the pollen is. So if you can zoom in, go for that area. Also, this software allows you to make the clone colors metallic--which I did here for the center and some of the white. For $30, this is a fascinating piece of software if you like to paint. It has gazillions of features, many significantly better than Corel or other painter software.
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A just for fun session but the post-processing wasn't fun anymore. On the left side was a picture on the wall, on the right was a window. First, I replaced both by gradient filled polygons. Although the edited part was matching the original colours, I decided to replace the whole background. The original tone was a chocolate brown colour but for the conversion, a not so dark tone might have been better, I think. The b&w conversion was made with the channel mixer (60% red, 25% blue, 15% green) in Photoshop.
Unfortunately I just had a single Speedlite 550 EX, so it was pretty tricky to get the highlights in her eyes and a natural looking light from above. I held the camera in portrait orientation, the flash with a bouncer was turned on approx. 60° towards the celing, so some light went still straight on her eyes and created the highlights while most of the light came as an indirect lighting from the celing. Sometimes the basics in physics and maths can be quite helpful :-)
Eine nur-so-zum-Spaß-Aufnahme, aber die Nachbearbeitiung war dann alles andere als lustig. Auf der linken Seite hing ein Foto an der Wand, rechts war ein Fenster. Zuerst habe ich beide durch Vielecke ersetzt, die mit einem Farbverlauf gefüllt wurden. Obwohl ich die Farben in den eingefügten Flachen so hinbekommen hatte wie im Rest der Aufnahme, entschied ich mich dann trotzdem den ganzen Hintergrund zu ersetzen. Im Originalbild ist die Farbe der Wand ein Schokoladenbraun, aber ich denke für die s/w-Umwandlung wäre ein hellerer Ton besser gewesen. Die s/w-Umwandlung erfolgte in Photoshop über den Kanalmixer ( (60% rot, 25% blau, 15% grün)
Leider hatte ich nur einen Speedlite 550 EX, so war es ziemlich schwierig Highlights in die Augen zu setzen und noch ein natürlich wirkendes Lich von oben zu bekommen. So hielt ich die Kamera hochkant und drehte den Blitz mit einem Diffusor etwa 60° auf die Decke, so ging immer noch etwas Licht auf ihre Augen und sorgte für den Glanz während das meiste Licht als indirektes Licht von der Decke reflektiert wurde. Manchmal sind die Grundlagen der Physik und Mathematik eben doch ganz hilfreich.
The Stadium Business Summit 2023 at Emirates Old Trafford, Manchester. Picture by Paul Heyes, Wednesday June 28, 2023.
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『玩美是人生追求完美境界的過程，完美是生活過程中的成果，攝影人在乎過程中的進行。因此，玩美幾乎是攝影人所追求的程序，意即尚在進行中，永無止息，故取名之。』
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See http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/7961/all, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The Przewalski's Horse is extinct in the wild and only maintained through captive breeding programmes.
Here is an extract from the IUCN site regarding this species:
Equus ferus ssp. przewalskii – Extinct in the Wild
Extract from Wakefield et al. 2002, pp. 83-84: "Since the ‘rediscovery’ of the Przewalski’s Horse for western science, western zoos and wild animal parks became interested in this species for their collections. Several long expeditions were mounted to catch animals. Some expeditions came back empty handed and some had only seen a glimpse of Przewalski’s Wild Horse. It proved difficult to catch adult horses, because they were too shy and fast. Capture of foals, with possible killing of the adult harem members, was considered the only option (Bouman and Bouman 1994). Four capture expeditions that managed to catch live foals took place between 1897 and 1902. Fifty three of these foals reached the west alive. Between the 1930s and the 1940s only a few Przewalski’s Horses were caught and most died. At least one mare was crossbred with domestic horses by the Mongolian War Ministry. One mare (Orliza III), particularly through her son Bars, was of great importance to breeding in the west (Bouman and Bouman 1994).
Small groups of horses were reported through the 1940s and 1950s in an area between the Baitak-Bogdo ridge and the ridge of the Takhin-Shara-Nuru (which, translated from Mongolian, means "the Yellow Mountain of the Wild Horse), but numbers appeared to decline dramatically after World War II. A number of causes have been cited for the final extinction of Przewalski’s horses. Among these are significant cultural and political changes (Bouman and Bouman 1994), hunting (Zhao and Liang 1992, Bouman and Bouman 1994), military activities (Ryder 1993), climatic change (Sokolov et al. 1992), and competition with livestock and increasing land use pressure (Sokolov et al. 1992, Ryder 1993, Bouman and Bouman 1994). Capture expeditions probably diminished the remaining Przewalski’s Horse populations by killing and dispersing the adults (S. Dulamtseren in Van Dierendonck and de Vries 1996). The harsh winters in 1945, 1948, and 1956 probably had an additional impact on the small population (Bouman and Bouman 1994). Increased pressure on, and rarity of waterholes in their last refuge should also be considered as a significant factor contributing to their extinction (Van Dierendonck and de Vries 1996).
The last confirmed sighting in the wild was made in 1969 by the Mongolian scientist N. Dovchin. He saw a stallion near a spring called Gun Tamga, north of the Tachin-Shara-Nuru, in the Dzungarian Gobi (Paklina and Pozdnyakova 1989). Annual investigations by the Joint Mongolian-Soviet Expedition have since failed to find conclusive evidence for their survival in the wild (Ryder 1990). Chinese biologists conducted a survey in northeastern Xinjiang from 1980 to 1982 (covering the area of 88–90° E and 41°31'–47°10' N) without finding any horses (Gao and Gu 1989). The last wild populations have almost certainly disappeared."
Scientific: Lavandula dhofarensis dhofarensis
Arabic: الخزامى الظفاري، اللافندر الظفاري
Taken on 25-May-2011 in Shihait, Taqah, Dhofar Governorate, Sultanate of Oman, Arabian Peninsula, Asia. (For more information, check it out on the map)
This photo belongs to DHOFAR ظفار group.
*Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ35
*Edited by ACDSee Pro 3.0
Despite its beauty and popularity, the Palace closed in 1978, and unsurprisingly began to crumble. Some of the windows were smashed, the marquee began to rust. Thankfully, it didn't take long for residents to realize that this gem would be lost forever should no one do anything, and in 1983, Cumberland Heritage began making noise about restoring and saving the Palace.
Still, little was done until 1989, when the Palace was listed in David Naylor's "Great American Movie Theatres". Beginning in the 90s, Downtown Crossville, Inc., a group of citizens, began the drive to save what was left of the Palace. The city purchased the property in '93 thanks to DCI's push, and in '94, the National Historic Register added the Palace to its list.
By 1996, the people of Crossville had approved the funding of a bond to restore the Palace so it could be used as a community auditorium. TNDOT also donated over $230,000 to the cause. More importantly (if you ask me), many private corporations donated money, while students and other locals donated their time and bodies for work in the theatre itself.
The Palace had her grand reopening in February of 2001, and the restoration has led to a revival of the entire downtown area where the Palace sits. Today, she hosts debates, fundraisers, music, pageants, various entertainments, and, of course, classic film.
It made me smile to see that the Palace is referred to as a "jewel" and "gem", because that is exactly what I said about it without realizing that's how locals see it. Though not large in stature, she's definitely large in style and class, isn't she?
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The pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee,
Nor lineage of Ecstasy
Delay the Butterfly
On spangle journeys to the peak
Of some perceiveless thing--
The right of way to Tripoli
A more essential thing.
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The Pedigree of Honey
Does not concern the Bee--
A Clover, any time, to him,
Is Aristocracy--
by Emily Dickinson
Die Hölle entspring aus uns Menschen,
wenn wir Fremde und Gedrückte allein lassen,
wenn wir den Nachteil fliehen,
wenn wir um jeden Preis den Vorteil für uns nehmen.
The hell out of us humans rises,
if we leave alone the strangers and subjugated,
if we flee the disadvantage,
if we take the advantage for us regardless.
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n 1944 the Nazis suffered a lack of oil and they have had the abstruse idea to gain oil from slate in the south of Germany. The energy-input in this process was much higher than the output. They forced inmates from KZ Natzweiler-Struthof to work in this production under incredible conditions. At the end more than 3500 people were killed by hunger, exhaustion, murder and hypothermia. In the woods named ECKERWALD you can see, until today, the slow decay of one of these death-factories. I`ve had the strange sensation, that everywhere on that walls still is a thin varnish of screams, fear and pain, altough there was a deep deep silence.
Close up detail of the entrance gates to Jupiter Artland, Kirknewton.
Let me tell you about the day I took this. I decided rather spontaneously that I would visit Jupiter Artland, as it's quite near my home (I can see Bonnington House in the distance from my window). A quick check of Google Maps suggested that I simply had to traverse a short distance up Bonnington Road, off Wilkieston, and I would be there. So off I set. I walked, and walked, and walked, soon realising that I had evidently walked way too far, and walked, walked, walked all the way back. At this point it started to rain, my legs were sore, and I was totally knackered. I wasn't exactly in a picture-taking mood any more - the muse had decided "sod this, I'm off back to bed" about an hour before - so it was only my pride keeping me going. Needless to say when I eventually found the place I was less than enthusiastic, given that there was a hell of a lot more walking to be done around the 80 acre estate and knowing that I had to walk back home after that. I actually strained a muscle by the end of it all!
Was it worth it? I'll let everyone else be the judge of that.
To top the day's events off, I realised I'd lost £20 and my visa card. So yeah, I won't forget Jupiter Artland in a hurry.
I'd still recommend it though!
See my Jupiter Artland set here.
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Looking down Palladius Street of the Roman-Byzantine city of Beit She'an from the archaeological mound or "tel". The tel is made up of 15 layers of previous settlements dating back to the bronze age.
The best preserved Roman-Byzantine town in Israel, Beit She’an lay on the old trade routes between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. First inhabited 5,000 years ago during the Canaanite era, it later became the main city in the region during the period of Egyptian occupation. Falling to the Philistines in the 11th century BCE, it then became part of Solomon’s kingdom. After the conquest of Alexander the Great it was renamed Scythopolis, and became a flourishing Hellenistic city.
The Roman conquest in the 1st century BCE saw Scythopolis further prosper as one of the ten city states of Decapolis. It later retained its economic importance under the Byzantines, also becoming a major centre of Christianity. An economic collapse, then an earthquake in 749 CE, eventually left only a small remaining Jewish community.
The jewel of this archaeological site is the Roman theatre, one of the best preserved in Israel, and once capable of seating 7,000.
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A pelican busy prunning himself/herself on a cliff at La Jolla Shores in Southern California.
INFORMATION ON THE PELICAN:
A pelican is any of several very large water birds with a distinctive pouch under the beak belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae.
Along with the darters, cormorants, gannets, boobies, frigatebirds, and tropicbirds, pelicans make up the order Pelecaniformes. Modern pelicans are found on all continents except Antarctica. They occur mostly in warm regions, though breeding ranges reach 45° south (Australian Pelican, P. conspicillatus) and 60° North (American White Pelicans, P. erythrorhynchos, in western Canada). Birds of inland and coastal waters, they are absent from polar regions, the deep ocean, oceanic islands, and inland South America.
Pelicans are large birds with enormous, pouched bills. The smallest is the Brown Pelican (P. occidentalis), small individuals of which can be as little as 2.75 kg (6 lb), 106 cm (42 in) long and can have a wingspan of as little as 1.83 m (6 ft). The largest is believed to be the Dalmatian Pelican (P. crispus), at up to 15 kg (33 lb), 183 cm (72 in) long, with a maximum wingspan of nearly 3.5 m (11.5 ft). The Australian Pelican has the longest bill of any bird.
Pelicans swim well with their short, strong legs and their feet with all four toes webbed (as in all birds placed in the order Pelecaniformes). The tail is short and square, with 20 to 24 feathers. The wings are long and have the unusually large number of 30 to 35 secondary flight feathers. A layer of special fibers deep in the breast muscles can hold the wings rigidly horizontal for gliding and soaring. Thus they can exploit thermals to commute over 150 km (100 miles) to feeding areas.
Pelicans rub the backs of their heads on their preen glands to pick up its oily secretion, which they transfer to their plumage to waterproof it.
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"Calm down she said consider this a warning.
A souvenir for the morning, a headache that you can't fix.
I said I can talk my way out of anything, but i am struggling in this emergency
This ones on your side.
I said this one is on your
Ambulance i'm calling you now
Accidents bring the house down
Come on come on, you don't know me
Come on come on, you owe me nothing
Dry your eyes and stick them on ice.
Give your chest a rest it's been cold your whole life
I'll have you know, the tables are about to turn
And you're going to get what, what you deserve.
Ambulance i'm calling you now
Accidents bring the house down
Come on come on, you don't know me
Come on come on, you owe me nothing
Is this is it my love, turn it up turn it up i want to hear you scream.
So sing, i am my own worst enemy, that's what she said to me.
And i am living out your dream.
So sing, i am my own worst enemy
So we can just breathe, a little more safely.
I've got real big plans and such bad thoughts."
--"Consequences" by You Me At Six
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Their new song off of their cd that hasn't been released yet. I can't wait for it to be released!!
Veronica persica (Poiret)
( = Veronica buxbaumii Tenore, Veronica tournefortii Gmelin, Veronica hospita Mertens et Koch.)
Veronica comune.
Forma biologica: T scap (Terofite scapose. Piante annue con asse fiorale allungato, spesso privo di foglie)
Descrizione: Pianta annua, erbacea infestante, pelosa, con fusti prostrati spesso radicanti; altezza 5÷50 cm.
Le foglie semplici, da ellittiche ad ovali con margine fortemente dentato, le basali sono opposte, le cauline sono alterne.
I fiori nascono all’ascella delle foglie, sono portati da lunghi peduncoli ,hanno corolle azzurre, con fauce giallognola. I fiori rimangono chiusi nelle giornate nuvolose con poca luce.
I frutti sono capsule compresse biloculari cuoriformi, con nervbi sposrgenti e talora peli ghiandolari; contengono da 4 a 8 semi per lobo.
Antesi: Gennaio÷Dicembre
Tipo corologico: W÷Asiat. divenuta Subcosmop.
Distribuzione in Italia: Presente in tutto il territorio
Habitat: Comune infestante dei luoghi erbosi, pascoli, orti, incolti, colture sarchiate; da 0 a 1.800 m.
Etimologia: Il nome del genere, fissato nel XVIII secolo da Linneo, già adottato in Inghilterra (1527) e in Francia (1545), dal nome dell’italiana Santa Veronica (1445-1497). Alcune fonti ritengono invece che il nome derivi da Betonica per traslitterazione da V a B, nome che appartiene ad un genere della famiglia delle Labiate, altri vedono una radice in "verus" ed "unicus",o in una fantasiosa unione fra"vires" latino e "nike" greco, ipotizzando “forze vittoriose”.
Ciò che appare improbabile è che il nome del genere in questione, abbia a che fare con la Veronica che, per pietà, asciugò con un panno il volto di Cristo sulla via del Calvario, la figura della “santa” Veronica, che appare nella sesta stazione della Via Crucis, non è presente nei quattro Vangeli. Popolare nelle sacre rappresentazioni alla fine del Medio Evo, potrebbe derivare il nome dalla storpiatura di "vera ikona",la "vera immagine".
Il panno, detto “ sudario della Veronica” fu conservato a Roma in San Pietro dal secolo VIII e fu oggetto di culto fino alla Controriforma. Nel 1527 col sacco di Roma di Carlo V., sparì, fu ritrovato solo nel XVII secolo, inserito in un pilastro della volta della Basilica vaticana, con l’immagine molto sbiadita.
Alla santa, molto stimata alla fine del Medio Evo, è legato il nome di Santa Veronica da Binasco (1445-1497), Papa Leone X ne approvò il culto nel 1517.
Il nome specifico fa riferimento al luogo di origine della pianta: la Persia .
Proprietà: Ha proprietà toniche ed espettoranti.