IMG_0953 Leafless Clematis (Clematis afoliata) in flower in November. Found in open rocky shrublands in the lower North Island, and the South Island, where it can also be found in tussock grasslands. Stems are up to 3m long, stiff, wiry and grooved, often forming large bundles with a 'tangled wire' appearance. Otago Peninsula *
110909-11011 North-west Nelson marble clematis (Clematis marmoraria) prominant white male flowers. Distinguished from all other clematis by its restriction to alpine marble karrenfield, where it grows either in crevices in massive marble slabs, or amongst semi-fixed rocks, stones and similar rocky sites in open herbfield. Confined to only two known sites in Kahurangi National Park, north-west Nelson *
DSC_0046 Stout water milfoil (Myriophyllum robustum) an endemic perennial aquatic herb now in gradual decline. This population is growing in a peat wetland at Ship Creek, Haast, South Westland *
