Coriaria plumosa growing on a low gradient scree slope
Whole plant, leaf arrangement (including petiole), flower arrangement.
Growing in alpine bog off Temple Basin Track
1) Leaves and seed pods with 1cm x 1cm scale.
2) Scree pea habitat.
3) Seed pods
4) Pods with scale
1) Plant with scale, growing on track edge in subalpine shrubland.
2) Flowers
3) Upper leaf surface
4) Lower leaf surface
5) Flowers side view
Turf forming, growing in subalpine grassland.
1) With scale
2) Leaf surface and diagnostic purple fruits
1) Cushion bog habitat, with Phyllacne and Donatia.
2) Plant height scale
3) Flower head
4) Flower head side view
5) Rosette
6) Toothed leaves
1) Tussock forming habit
2) Spikelet, with distinctive long and recurved awns. Lower lemma 10mm (without awn) measured on site.
3) glaucous leaf blade.
4) leaf blade scale on 1cm by 1cm grid.
5) Plant with scale.
Found near Cass field station. Mat forming and spreading habit, surrounded by grass/tussock, and other herbs and shrubs
Found on scree at Red hill. Around 10cm across
Found on scree at Red hill. Plant is 20cm across
River bed, open rocky area surrounded by other small herbs distributed sporadically. Plant around 25cm across
Found in subalpine rock outcrops.
Leaves in a rosette, with hairs on leaf surfaces. Polygonal leaf shape.
Colour can range from green to purple.
Herbaceous plant with very short stems, 2.5-15.5cm tall.
Solitary flowers with 5 petals ranging from pink to white.
Persistent, papery white involucral bracts.
Herbaceous plant with erect stems around 7-10cm tall.
Can spread up to 60cm across.
Grows in alpine rocky environments.
Obovate leaves with mucronate tip.
White tomentose on leaf underside.
Found in a subalpine shrubland/grassland.
Growing on riverbed. Species abundant in area. Stems erect with terminal flowers. Seed pods are long and thin.
Flowers white. Growing in a bog near Cass, NZ.
Solitary plant, growing in gravel substrate
15cm wide x 5cm tall
creamy white flower, creeping on gravel area
Leaves are 40 - 50 mm long, glossy green oval pointed leaves. No leaf stalk
Found in montane habitat at Red Hill.
Bell-shaped white flowers in raceme. Dry seed pods.
Found in a gravel/rocky montane habitat at Red Hill.
Purple-black stems, toothed leaves, tube-shaped 4-petal flowers with elongated ovaries.
Found in rocky montane habitat at Red Hill.
Mat-forming habit.
Hairs present on the leaves, red-purple fleshy berries with two seeds in each berry.
Found in a scree area in montane habitat at Red Hill.
Found in a montane habitat at Temple Basin Ski Area.
Low growing habit.
Tube-shaped white flowers look star-shaped from the top and petals are very hairy on the topside.