PLANT PROFILES —
ALPINE PLANTS OF NEW ZEALAND

• Index of Common Names
• Index of Scientific Names

Reproduced from
Alpine Plants of New Zealand
ISBN 0 7900 0525 5
by kind permission of the author, Lawrie Metcalf and Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd

Publication or other use of images or descriptive text on these pages is unauthorised unless written permission is obtained from the author and publisher.
Appropriate acknowledgement of the publication Alpine Plants of New Zealand must always be given.

 

Index of Common Names

Follow the links below to 10 sample pages from
Alpine Plants of New Zealand,
or navigate from the Image Gallery.

• Alpine club-moss
• Alpine hardfern
• Bidibidi
• Biddy bid
• Biddy biddy
• Bluebell
• Cotton plant
• Edelweiss, South Island
• Everlasting daisy
• Eyebright
• Golden star lily
• Grass tree
• Harebell
• Inaka
• Inanga
• Korikori
• Maori onion
• Mt Cook lily
• Mountain buttercup
• Mountain daisy
• Mountain cottonwood
• Mountain lily
• Mountain totara
• Native violet
• New Zealand angelica
• Panakenake
• Patotara
• Penwiper
• Piripiri
• Pygmy pine
• Red tussock
• Shepherd's lily
• Snowberry
• Snow totara
• South Island edelweiss
• Spaniard
• Speargrass
• Tauhinu
• Tikumu
• Vegetable sheep
• Willow herb

Index of Scientific Names

Follow the links below to 10 sample pages from
Alpine Plants of New Zealand,
or navigate from the Image Gallery.

Acaena caesiiglauca

glabra

inermis

microphylla

Aciphylla colensoi

monroi

similis

Anisotome haastii

Astelia nervosa

Blechnum pennamarina

Brachyglottis bellidioides

bidwillii

bidwillii var. viridis

lagopus

Bulbinella angustifolia

hookeri

Carmichaelia monroi

Cassinia vauvilliersii

Celmisia semicordata

ssp. aurigans

ssp. stricta

sessiliflora

Chionochloa rubra

ssp. cuprea

ssp. occulta

ssp. rubra

Coprosma cheesemanii

Cyathodes colensoi

Donatia novae-zelandiae

Dracophyllum longifolium

Epilobium macropus

Euphrasia revoluta

Gaultheria depressa

var. novae-zelandiae

Gentiana bellidifolia

var. australis

Geranium sessiliflorum

Geum cockaynei (G. parviflorum)

Gingidia montana

Lepidothamnus laxifolius

Hebe macrantha

var. brachyphylla

Helichrysum bellidioides

Leptinella atrata

Leucogenes grandiceps

Leucopogon fraseri

Lycopodium fastigiatum

scariosum

Notothlaspi rosulatum

Ourisia macrocarpa

ssp. calycina

macrophylla

ssp. robusta

Parahebe lyallii

Pentachondra pumila

Phyllachne colensoi

Pimelea oreophila

Podocarpus nivalis

Pratia angulata

Ranunculus insignis

lyallii

Raoulia bryoides

subsericea

Viola lyallii

Wablenbergia albomarginata

laxa

Web-notes: Alpine Garden Links

On this site

Reproduced from Alpine Plants of New Zealand:

• Reading List
• Browse index of Common and Scientific Names
• Image Gallery of Alpine Plants

Also see the article by Raymond Mole on:
New Zealand Alpine Plants: A Challenge for Growers

 

External Links

New Zealand Alpine Garden Society

 

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