Veronica elliptica

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica elliptica, photographed by Emma Burns — fig. b Emma Burns, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192721428

Veronica elliptica, photographed by Tim Park — fig. c Tim Park, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 186857740

Veronica elliptica, photographed by Joe Dillon — fig. e Joe Dillon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 182670633

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Native range 7 botanical countries

Native distribution of Veronica elliptica, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Antipodean Is.	ATP	AUSTRALASIA
Chatham Is.	CTM
New Zealand North	NZN
New Zealand South	NZS
Argentina South	AGS	SOUTHERN AMERICA
Chile South	CLS
Falkland Is.	FAL	ANTARCTICA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 271 in flower of 324 examined

90%

67%

55%

64%

100%

67%

81%

96%

Proportion of examined Veronica elliptica in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	75	83	90%	82% to 95%
Feb	24	36	67%	50% to 80%
Mar	6	11	55%	28% to 79%
Apr	14	22	64%	43% to 80%
May	5	5	100%	57% to 100%
Jun	4	6	67%	30% to 90%
Jul	0	3	too few examined
Aug	2	3	too few examined
Sep	0	2	too few examined
Oct	3	4	too few examined
Nov	29	36	81%	65% to 90%
Dec	109	113	96%	91% to 99%

Peak flowering in May. Each bar is the share of Veronica elliptica observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 271 of 324 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 4 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Hebe elliptica (G.Forst.) Pennell
Hebe elliptica var. crassifolia Cockayne & Allan
Hebe magellanica J.F.Gmel.
Hebe menziesii (Benth.) Cockayne & Allan
Veronica decussata Aiton
Veronica decussata Moench
Veronica magellanica Juss. ex Dippel
Veronica marginata Colenso
Veronica menziesii Benth.
Veronica simpsonii Phil.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.