Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.51677 172.645022
Verbatim locality:
Christchurch, 115 Packe Street
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 415/92
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
31-DEC-1992
Start date:
1992-12-31
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Ecological District:
Low Plains
Country:
New Zealand
Native lands:
Ngāi Tahu
Georeferences:
New Zealand Map Series 260:
M35 80- 42- (WGS84 -43.52436 172.63494)
Habitat:
Garden.
Notes:
Perennial herbaceous plants forming small tufts. Stems erect, to about 1m high, often much less. Leaves glaucous. Flowers light purple; pedicels more or less curving forward. Calyx pale or medium green, flushed mauve. Corolla about 15mm long; ie. from apex of spur to apex of lower lip; spur 7-8mm long; limb bilabiate, pouched; the lower lip more or less declined, 3-lobed, the lobes about 4mm long; upper lip shorter than lower and more or less directed backwards. an abundant weed in and around garden. Adventive.