Veronica amplexicaulis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Veronica amplexicaulis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Hebe amplexicaulis (J.B.Armstr.) Cockayne & Allan
- Hebe amplexicaulis var. erecta Cockayne & Allan
- Hebe amplexicaulis var. suberecta Cockayne & Allan
Infraspecifics
Other taxa in genus
- Veronica albicans
- Veronica albicans
- Veronica armstrongii
- Veronica barkeri
- Veronica baylyi
- Veronica × bidwillii
- Veronica brachysiphon
- Veronica buchananii
- Veronica canterburiensis
- Veronica catarractae
- Veronica chathamica
- Veronica colensoi
- Veronica corriganii
- Veronica cupressoides
- Veronica decora
- Veronica decumbens
- Veronica dieffenbachii
- Veronica diosmifolia
- Veronica × divergens
- Veronica elliptica
- Veronica epacridea
- Veronica × fairfieldii
- Veronica × franciscana
- Veronica Garden Hybrids
- Veronica gibbsii
- Veronica glaucophylla
- Veronica haastii
- Veronica hectorii
- Veronica hulkeana
- Veronica × kirkii
- Veronica lavaudiana
- Veronica leiophylla
- Veronica × lewisii
- Veronica ligustrifolia
- Veronica linifolia
- Veronica × loganioides
- Veronica lyallii
- Veronica lycopodioides
- Veronica maccaskillii
- Veronica macrantha
- Veronica macrocarpa
- Veronica matthewsii
- Veronica obtusata
- Veronica ochracea
- Veronica odora
- Veronica parviflora
- Veronica pauciramosa
- Veronica pentasepala
- Veronica pimeleoides
- Veronica pinguifolia
- Veronica propinqua
- Veronica rakaiensis
- Veronica raoulii
- Veronica rigidula
- Veronica salicifolia
- Veronica salicornioides
- Veronica stenophylla
- Veronica stricta
- Veronica subalpina
- Veronica tetrasticha
- Veronica topiaria
- Veronica traversii
- Veronica venustula
- Veronica vernicosa
A shrub 1 to 3 ft high, with the branches erect or ultimately prostrate. Leaves glaucous, 1⁄2 to 1 in. long, 1⁄3 to 2⁄3 in. broad, broadly oblong or oval, cupped, superposed in four vertical rows and closely set together, rounded at the apex, the bases overlapping, heart-shaped, not stalked, but partially clasping the stem. Flowers white, 1⁄4 in. across, stalkless, borne from leaf-axils near the end of the shoot in simple or branched spikes 1 to 11⁄2 in. long, the main-stalk of which is minutely downy; bracts long, concealing the calyx-lobes. Ovary downy near apex. Capsules rounded. Bot. Mag., t. 7370.
Native of the South Island of New Zealand in the Canterbury province; discovered by Armstrong about 1880 and soon after introduced. It is allied to, and about as hardy as V. baylyi and V. pinguifolia. From the former it is distinguished by its downy ovary and round-tipped seed-vessel, and from both by its stem-clasping leaves, heart-shaped at the base, and in the longer, sometimes branched inflorescence.
f. hirta (Garn.-Jones & Molloy) Garn.-Jones
Synonyms
Hebe allanii Cockayne
Hebe amplexicaulis f. hirta Garn.-Jones & Molloy
A spreading shrub to about 1 ft high, remarkable for having its branchlets, leaves, inflorescence-axes and calyces quite densely clad with long hairs – an unusual feature in this genus, where the hairs, if present, normally take the form of a fine pubescence. Leaves thick and glaucous, oblong or oblongovate, obtuse, about 5⁄8 in. long and 3⁄8 in. wide, margined with red. Flowers white, densely arranged in racemes about 3⁄4 in. long, on peduncles about 1 in. long, in early summer. An endemic of Mount Peel, Canterbury. It is now in cultivation and is fairly hardy.