Veronica americana variously called American Brooklime or American Speedwell is a plant native to temperate and arctic Asia and North America where it grows in streams and bottomlands. It is a herbaceous perennial with glabrous stems 10100 cm long that bear terminal or axillary racemes or spikes of soft violet flowers. The leaves are 1.58 cm long and 3 to 20 times as long as wide short-petiolate glabrous serrate to almost entire. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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