Veronica topiaria
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Synonyms
- Hebe topiaria L.B.Moore
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 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 traversii
- Veronica venustula
- Veronica vernicosa
Distribution New Zealand South Island
This species, first described in 1961 but known earlier, is perhaps not in cultivation in Britain at present (1971) but is in commerce in New Zealand. It is described as a low-growing, much-branched shrub, assuming in the open ‘a globular form as if clipped to shape’. Branchlets with two lines of rather coarse down. Leaf-buds without sinus. Leaves glaucous, spreading-erect, broad-elliptic or slightly obovate, about 1⁄2 in. long, 1⁄4 in. wide, almost glabrous. Inflorescences lateral, simple, very short; bracts almost as long as pedicels. Calyx-lobes rather broad, with a narrow membranous border, finely ciliate. Corolla white, tube broad, longer than calyx, the corolla-lobes rounded, as long as the tube. Capsules glabrous, about twice as long as the calyx. Native of Nelson Province (South Island).