Veronica hectorii

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica hectorii, photographed by John Barkla — fig. b John Barkla, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 177607755

Veronica hectorii, photographed by Sebastian Doak — fig. c Sebastian Doak, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 80425193

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Native distribution of Veronica hectorii, 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.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
New Zealand North	NZN	AUSTRALASIA
New Zealand South	NZS

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 52 in flower of 62 examined

97%

100%

40%

70%

Proportion of examined Veronica hectorii in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	28	29	97%	83% to 99%
Feb	11	11	100%	74% to 100%
Mar	2	5	40%	12% to 77%
Apr	1	1	too few examined
May	1	1	too few examined
Jun	0	0	too few examined
Jul	0	0	too few examined
Aug	0	0	too few examined
Sep	0	0	too few examined
Oct	0	0	too few examined
Nov	2	5	40%	12% to 77%
Dec	7	10	70%	40% to 89%

Peak flowering in Feb. Each bar is the share of Veronica hectorii 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. 52 of 62 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 7 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 18 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 coarctata (Cheeseman) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe demissa G.Simpson
Hebe hectori subsp. laingii (Cockayne) Wagstaff & Wardle
Hebe hectori subsp. subulata (G.Simpson) Wagstaff & Wardle
Hebe hectorii (Hook.f.) Cockayne & Allan
Hebe hectorii subsp. coarctata (Cheeseman) Wagstaff & Wardle
Hebe hectorii subsp. demissa (G.Simpson) Wagstaff & Wardle
Hebe hectorii subsp. laingii (Cockayne) Wagstaff & Wardle
Hebe hectorii subsp. subulata (G.Simpson) Wagstaff & Wardle
Hebe laingii (Cockayne) Andersen
Hebe subulata G.Simpson
Leonohebe coarctata (Cheeseman) Heads
Leonohebe hectorii (Hook.f.) Heads
Leonohebe hectorii var. demissa (G.Simpson) Heads
Leonohebe laingii (Cockayne) Heads
Leonohebe subulata (G.Simpson) Heads
Veronica coarctata Cheeseman
Veronica laingii Cockayne

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.

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