Veronica tetragonaHook.

WFO wfo-0000425108 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. a Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2022-04-16 / obs. 189374365
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. b Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189374023
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. c Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189372392
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. d Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 189377546
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. e Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177004310
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. f Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177216924
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. g Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 177218596
Veronica tetragona, photographed by Christopher Stephens
fig. h Christopher Stephens, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 174513085

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Veronica tetragona is native: New Zealand North, New Zealand South New Zealand NorthNew Zealand South
Native distribution of Veronica tetragona, 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
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.

Also published as 11 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 astonii (Petrie) Cockayne & Allan
  • Hebe hectori subsp. subsimilis (Colenso) Wagstaff & Wardle
  • Hebe hectorii subsp. subsimilis (Colenso) Wagstaff & Wardle
  • Hebe subsimilis (Colenso) Ashwin
  • Hebe tetragona (Hook.) Andersen
  • Hebe tetragona subsp. subsimilis (Colenso) Bayly & Kellow
  • Leonohebe subsimilis (Colenso) Heads
  • Leonohebe subsimilis var. astonii (Petrie) Heads
  • Leonohebe tetragona (Hook.f.) Heads
  • Veronica astonii Petrie
  • Veronica subsimilis 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. 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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