Germander Speedwell
Veronica chamaedrys
- Flowering period
- April–July
- Nectar
- mäßig
- Pollen
- mäßig
Germander Speedwell flowers from April to July and provides a moderate amount of nectar with a moderate pollen value. It is a low perennial of meadows, roadsides and hedges and spreads by creeping shoots. Its sky-blue flowers hardly count individually but often grow together in large numbers. In spring it is a small but widespread minor flow in every meadow. British measurements give around 9 micrograms of sugar per flower per day, around 3,299 pollen grains per flower and a nectar yield of around 5 kilograms of sugar per hectare per year.
Sources (7)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Gamander-Ehrenpreis
- Bienenweidepflanzen für den Hausgarten, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau (LWG) Veitshöchheim
- Veronica chamaedrys, Wikipedia
- Veronica chamaedrys, Euro+Med PlantBase über PESI
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments
- Baude, Kunin, Memmott (2015): Nectar sugar values of common British plant species [AgriLand]
- Baude, Kunin, Davies, Wright, Memmott (2025): Pollen production values of common British plant species