Family | PLANTAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Veronica buchanani Hook.f. subgen. Hebe |
Bibliography | Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 1: 211 (1864) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | branchlets glabrous, leaves crowded, opposite, oval to orbiculate, concave, glabrous, pale green, flowers sessile in small, terminal racemes |
Size | 20-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C basal cuttings in late summer and fall |
Synonyms | Hebe buchananii (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |