Hebe albicans is a species of plant in the Plantaginaceae

Plantaginaceae

Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...

 which is native to New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

. It flowers from December to April and has small white flowers on flowerheads that are 3–6 cm (1.2–2.4 ) long. It has thick bluish-coloured leaves which are 1.5 centimetre long and 8 millimetre wide. It is found in the mountainous region around Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....

, at an altitude of 1000–1400 m (3,280.8–4,593.2 ). A closely related species, Hebe amplexicaulis, is found in a similar habitat in Canterbury.