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Snow tussocks and shrubs

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Snow tussocks and shrubs

Snow tussocks grow beside Hebe and Dracophyllum shrubs along the Kepler track, in Fiordland National Park.

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Hugh Wilson, Alpine plants – Alpine grasslands and wetlands, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11030/snow-tussocks-and-shrubs (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Wilson, published 1 March 2009.