Veronica hookerianaWalp.

Hooker's speedwell

WFO wfo-0000425791 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Oscar Dove
fig. a Oscar Dove, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-27 / obs. 194951943
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. b Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188984461
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. c Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188984302
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. d Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 188984420
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. e Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189371854
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. f Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189371824
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. g Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189371900
Veronica hookeriana, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. h Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177002862

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Veronica hookeriana is native: New Zealand North New Zealand North
Native distribution of Veronica hookeriana, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
New Zealand North NZN AUSTRALASIA

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.

Also published as 8 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 hookeriana (Walp.) Allan
  • Hebe olsenii (Colenso) A.Wall
  • Parahebe hookeriana (Walp.) W.R.B.Oliv.
  • Parahebe olsenii (Colenso) W.R.B.Oliv.
  • Veronica compacta Colenso
  • Veronica nivalis Benth.
  • Veronica nivea Hook.f.
  • Veronica olsenii Colenso

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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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