Limnanthes douglasii
ζ*Limnanthes douglasii R. Br. ζ* has been collected once on a roadside at Warkworth, N. Auckland (CHR 73297, 24.10.1951) and was recorded from Ashburton by Smith, W. W., Trans. Proc. N.Z. Inst. 36: 208 (1904), but without a supporting specimen. A tender, somewhat fragile, glabrous herb with long-petiolate imparipinnate lvs; leaflets pinnatisect with ultimate segments triangular to linear-lanceolate and acute; fls c. 35 mm diam.; petals obovate and shallowly emarginate, bicoloured with base yellow and apex white; fr. obovoid and slightly tuberculate. It is sometimes grown in gardens and is known as poached-egg flower or meadow foam. (W. U.S.A., 1904).
