- Plants
- ›Vascular Plants
- ›flowering plants
- ›Dicots
- ›Mints, Plantains, Olives, and Allies
- ›Plantain Family
- ›Veroniceae
- ›Veronica
- ›Pseudoveronica
- ›Hebe
Whipcord Hebe
Veronica lycopodioides
Veronica lycopodioides, or whipchord hebe, is a species of hebe which is endemic to New Zealand.
From the article Veronica lycopodioides on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
Veronica lycopodioides is a short, erect shrub with branches whose leaves grow close to the stem, causing the branches themselves to look scaly and green. The leaves are triangular, have a pointed tip, and may have hair on the margin which can be seen with a hand lens. White flowers, in groups of 6–16, burst from the tip of the terminal branches. The pointed tips of the leaves can be used in the field to distinguish this species from Veronica poppelwellii. A subspecies, Veronica lycopodioides var. patula, is smaller in most respects.
Range & habitat
Veronica lycopodioides grows on the South Island of New Zealand, typically to the east of the central spine of the Southern Alps. It grows on penalpine grassland, and in subalpine areas. It may grow on Stewart Island. It is not currently considered threatened.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
In human culture
Lycopodioides refers to the similarity of this species to Lycopodium club-mosses.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Veronica lycopodioides in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 738749.