Pomaderris amoena or tauhinu is endemic to the Three Kings, North and South Islands. In the South Island it is generally scarce reaching its southern limit at Eyrewell Forest, Canterbury. It is usually found in coastal and lowland open shrublands, gumland scrub and in sand country, and also in rocky headlands. Occasionally found well inland in montane situations. A species virtually confined to successional vegetation types. This closely branched, softly bushy shrub will grow up to 1m tall. It has bright green leaves that are very small and narrow with a wrinkled surface, on branchlets that are quite often densely clad with white hairs. It has small pale yellow flowers from October to December. The name change has come through DNA testing that has determined that it is not closely related to Pomaderris phylicifolia, the species that is from Australia.

Cyathea medullaris,mamaku, or black tree fern is found from the Three Kings Islands south to Stewart and the main Chatham Islands. It is uncommon in the drier eastern portion of the South Island. It is a large tree fern with black-stalked leaves to 5m long, sometimes reaching 20 metres in height, they have oval-shaped frond scars on the trunk, where it grows in damp gullies throughout New Zealand. The white pith of the trunk and the koru (new shoots) are edible, although slimy when first cut. Maori stripped the trunk’s outer layers so the slime could dry or drain away. The plant was then cut down and cooked whole. Alternatively, koru (new shoots) were hung to dry. Baking was the preferred way to cook mamaku, to separate the stringy fibres from the flesh. Although the taste is bland, the nutritional value is high.

Plagianthus divaricatus, makaka, salt marsh ribbonwood, or marsh ribbonwood is endemic to the North, South, Chatham and Stewart Islands. It is found in coastal salt-marsh areas, on coastal banks, the backs of stony beaches, and around fringes of estuaries. For this reason it has value as one of the few plants that will tolerate both salt laden winds and wet soils. It is a small bushy tangled shrub 1-2m tall with wide-angled thin twigs (young twigs are more or less covered with star-shaped hairs) bearing small very narrow clusters of leaves and small drooping creamy white to pale yellow flowers from September to October, followed by a rounded capsule from November to April, that is 5mm wide and usually contains one seed.

Veronica (Hebe) speciosa, titirangi or napuka is endemic to the North and South Islands. In the North Island, it is known only on the west coast, formerly from Scots Point to Urenui. Now only known from outer South Head (Hokianga Harbour), Maunganui Bluff, near Muriwai Beach, at two sites on cliffs west of Aotea Harbour, Mokau. In the South Island at Titirangi Bay (Marlborough sounds). Its habitats are coastal cliffs and headlands, in low windswept scrub and flaxlands. Found rarely under taller trees. It is a spreading to somewhat sprawling shrub up to 2 x 3 m. Branches stout, becoming woody at base, spreading to sprawling, rarely erect, often layering on contact with ground. Veronica (Hebe) speciosa can be distinguished by its magenta-coloured flowers, and dark green to pale green fleshy leaves which always have a pink-red pigmented, finely hairy leaf margin. It is cold sensitive and does best in an open, sunny, exposed place, in free draining soil. A spectacular plant ideal for a coastal property. Plants are rarely without flowers at any time of the year. It is threatened by weed invasion of its coastal habitat, browsing animals, and genetic pollution through planting of other Veronica  (hebe) species, and cultivars in the vicinity of wild populations. DNA based research has discovered that populations south of W. Auckland probably stem from deliberate past Maori plantings of this attractive red-flowered species. These plantings resulted from the movement of a limited amount of material from South Head, Hokianga, and as such these southerly populations lack sufficient genetic variability to sexually maintain themselves.