Veronica rubrifolia Boiss.

Veronica rubrifolia is an annual herb with erect, often reddish stems reaching up to1-7 cm tall. The leaf blade is ovate to ovate-oblong, sparsely pubescent abaxially, and glabrous adaxially, with entire or sparsely and shallowly incised margins. The flowers are white or pale blue and arranged in 2 cm racemes. The fruit is an obcordate capsule. 

There is 1 subspecies occuring in Egypt:

Veronica rubrifolia Boiss subsp. repectatissima

Annuals. Stems erect, often reddish, 1-7 cm tall, simple or branched from middle, white pubescent. Petiole ca. 2 mm to sessile upward; leaf blade ovate to ovate-oblong, 3-10 X 2-5 mm, abaxially sparsely pubescent, adaxially glabrous, margin entire or lower leaves sparsely and shallowly incised. Racemes ca. 2 cm, axis and pedicels pubescent and glandular hairy; bracts alternate, smaller than leaves, linear to lanceolate. Flowers solitary in bract axils. Pedicel 2-4(-5) mm, shorter to longer than bract, apically curved after flowering. Calyx 4-lobed, slightly enlarged, 3-4.5(-6) mm, abaxially villous and with multicellular hairs; lobes ovate, margin reddish glandular ciliate, obscurely 3-veined. Corolla white or pale blue, rotate, shorter than calyx; lobes ovate. Capsule obcordate, 2.5-3.5 mm, slightly shorter than calyx, strongly compressed, ca. 4 mm wide, parted to middle, notch angle 70-90°; lobes ovate, margin red glandular ciliate, otherwise glabrous or eglandular puberulent. Style ca. 5 mm. Seeds ovoid-navicular, ca. 1 mm; seed coat smooth. Fr. May.

N Xinjiang [Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan; SW Asia].

Sandy places, dry slopes; below 3800 m.

Veronica ferganica Popov; V. uncinata Pennell.