Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Veronica densifolia
Common name
Feldmark Snow-hebe
Family
Plantaginaceae
Where found
Very low shrubland in alpine feldmark. Kosciusko National Park.
Notes
Prostrate or sprawling shrub usually less than 0.1 m high but spreading to 30 cm or more in diameter. The short ascending branchlets hairy. Freely rooting. Leaves opposite each other, usually densely crowded in 4 ranks, about 0.4-0.7 cm long and 2-3 mm wide, thick, concave above and keeled below, tips blunt, margins fringed. Flowers purple, mauve, pink or white, 6–9 mm long, with a funnel-shaped tube 4-5 mm long, and 5-6 spreading lobes. Stamens 2. Flowers single. Flowering: Nov-Jan.
Family was Scrophulariacae.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Veronica~densifolia (accessed 11 February, 2021)
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