Hebe rigidula
Credits
Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
Recommended citation
'Hebe rigidula' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Veronica rigidula Cheesem.
Other taxa in genus
- Hebe amplexicaulis
- Hebe anomala
- Hebe armstrongii
- Hebe brachysiphon
- Hebe buchananii
- Hebe buxifolia
- Hebe canterburiensis
- Hebe carnosula
- Hebe chathamica
- Hebe colensoi
- Hebe cupressoides
- Hebe decumbens
- Hebe dieffenbachii
- Hebe diosmifolia
- Hebe elliptica
- Hebe epacridea
- Hebe × franciscana
- Hebe gibbsii
- Hebe gigantea
- Hebe glaucophylla
- Hebe gracillima
- Hebe hectoris
- Hebe hulkeana
- Hebe leiophylla
- Hebe ligustrifolia
- Hebe loganioides
- Hebe lycopodioides
- Hebe macrantha
- Hebe macrocarpa
- Hebe matthewsii
- Hebe ochracea
- Hebe parviflora
- Hebe pimeleoides
- Hebe pinguifolia
- Hebe propinqua
- Hebe rakaiensis
- Hebe recurva
- Hebe salicifolia
- Hebe speciosa
- Hebe stricta
- Hebe tetrasticha
A densely branched shrub to about 2 ft high; branchlets yellow-green with two lines of down on the internodes; leaf-bud with a narrow sinus. Leaves ascending to spreading, up to 1 in. long and 3⁄8 in. wide, elliptic-oblong, acute, green and slightly glossy above, dull green or glaucous beneath, glabrous. Inflorescence branched, not much longer than the leaves, crowded near the tips of the branchlets. Flowers white, sessile; tube about twice as long as calyx. Capsules glabrous.
Native of South Island, commonest in the mountains between Nelson and Blenheim, in rocky habitats. A useful hardy shrub for the rock garden and similar positions, flowering in summer.