New article for Trees and Shrubs Online.
Recommended citation
'Veronica × divergens' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
For hybrids in Veronica sect. Hebe, especially Veronica × lewisii refer to Garnock-Jones (2008).
Distribution New Zealand
A shrub 2 to 5 ft high; young branchlets finely downy. Leaves 3⁄4 to 11⁄4 in. long, up to 1⁄2 in. wide, narrow-oblong or elliptic-oblong, flat, glabrous, midrib raised beneath. Racemes densely flowered, up to 3 in. long (sometimes longer); bracts about equal to the pedicels. Flowers white; corolla-tube rather broad, about as long as the calyx and shorter than the corolla-lobes. A hybrid described from Nelson province, South Island.