Veronica pulvinaris

Veronica pulvinaris, one of the cushion snow hebes, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. It is endemic to high elevation habitats of the mountains of the northern and central South Island of New Zealand, mostly east of the main divide. Joseph Dalton Hooker described Pygmea pulvinaris in 1864, which was transferred to the genus Veronica in 1906 by Thomas Cheeseman. Plants of this species are dioecious cushions with small, spirally imbricate, sessile leaves that have sparsely but evenly distributed hairs mostly on the upper half of the leaf surfaces and edges. They also have regular flowers with white tubular corollas with 5 petals and 2 stamens, and both the ovary and capsule have a dense covering of hairs at the apex. The conservation status of V. pulvinaris is not threatened. It is closely related to other snow hebe species, especially the other cushions, V. thomsonii, V. chionohebe and V. ciliolata....read more on Wikipedia.