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Mountain Snowberry

Gaultheria depressa

Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in New Zealand.January 157, February 125, March 104, April 80, May 34, June 15, July 10, August 10, September 31, October 18, November 45, December 50.
New Zealand679
Canterbury Region271
Otago Region110
Tasman Region58
Manawatu-Wanganui Region54
Southland Region51
West Coast Region43
Wellington Region35
Waikato Region17
Taranaki Region17

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • Aquatic larvaLarval stage lives in water before becoming terrestrialFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderHeathers, Balsams, Primroses, and Allies · Ericales
Familyheath family · Ericaceae
Genuswintergreens · Gaultheria

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Mountain Snowberry with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.