Slender, single-stemmed annual. Stem pubescent torwards top. Leaves oblong to spatulate, sessile, entire, opposite at stem bottom, and alternate towards the top. Leaf measured at 16 mm long and 3 mm wide. Leaves hairy on margins only. Flowers in upper leaf axils, white, 4 petals, 2 stamens, flower measured at 3 mm diameter. Unlike other Veronica species whose flowers are slightly irregular, these flowers look regular to me.

Habitat is wet soils, across the prairies. Listed as common in Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Saskatchewan.

Height listed in Budd's Flora to 30 cm. We measured plants to 11 cm tall.

The above photos were taken June 30th, growing in mud in dried up creek bed, Gap Road, Cypress Hills, about 450 km southwest of our home in Regina, SK.