Accepted name: Veronica cupressoides
A densely branched, rounded shrub, sometimes to 1.5 m or so tall. Branchlets erect, green to waxy-blue. Leaves scale-like, closely pressed to the branchlets, to about 1.5 mm long, giving the plant a conifer-like appearance. Flower clusters with 6-8 flowers. Flowers pale blue-violet.
New Zealand
Source: (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Hebe cupressoides 'Boughton Dome'
A dwarf form growing to about 45 cm tall.
Introduced by Lady Scott and named after Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK.
