Veronica epacridea
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Veronica epacridea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Synonyms
- Hebe epacridea (Hook.f.) Andersen
- Leonohebe epacridea (Hook.f.) Heads
Other taxa in genus
- Veronica albicans
- Veronica albicans
- Veronica amplexicaulis
- 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 × 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
Distribution New Zealand South Island
A low or prostrate evergreen shrub, the young stems completely clothed with leaves arranged in opposite, overlapping pairs on the stem. Leaves about 3⁄16 in. long, ovate, pointed, united at the base, distinctly recurved, V-shaped in cross section, glabrous except for a streak of down where the leaves join at the base, dark dull green with pale margins; they persist on the stems for several years. Flowers fragrant, closely packed in compact, egg-shaped, terminal heads, 1⁄2 to 11⁄4 in. long by 3⁄4 in. wide. Each flower is about 1⁄8 to 3⁄16 in. wide, white, the tube of the corolla slender. Calyx deeply four-lobed, the lobes narrow oblong, as long as the corolla tube, margined with fine hairs.
Native of the South Island of New Zealand; discovered by Dr Sinclair, in 1860, at Tarndale, a few miles from the Wairau Gorge, Nelson. It is a species distinct in the very stiff, thick, rigid leaves, dense compact head of flowers and long slender corolla-tube. It occurs wild at elevations of 3,000 to 5,000 ft and is quite hardy. Suitable for the rock garden. Flowers in July.
Figured in Philipson and Hearn, Rock Garden Plants, plate 46.
