Culver's Physic:

Veronica virginica. Figwort Family. July - Aug.

An erect plant with straight, usually unbranched stem 2 - 7 feet high. Found in moist woods, meadows. Western Massachusetts and Connecticut to Manitoba and southward.

Flowers

White or pale lavender, in dense, terminal spikes 3 - 6 inches long.

Leaves

4 - 7, in whorls, lance-shaped, pointed, finely toothed.