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Sedge & Rush-like
Tetraria capillaris
A fine leaved plant that looks like a reed. Found in scrub and wetlands.
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Shrub
Teucridium parvifolium 
Twiggy habit with small leaves. Abundant small white flowers (summer). Prune to shape.
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Herb
Thelymitra longifolia
A deciduous white flowering Orchid. Difficult to establish. Can have up to 20 flowers that are up to 1.5 cm wide. Flowers may not open.
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Herb
Thelymitra pauciflora
A deciduous blue flowered Orchid with up to 8, 1 cm wide flowers that may not open. Can be difficult to establish.
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Fern
Thelypteris confluens
A rare light green fern that prefers to grow on the side of peat bogs and swamps. Sensitive to cold and may die down but should sprout back.
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Moss
Thuidium furfurosum
A bright green- yellow moss that forms extensive patches on open ground. Difficult to establish due to birds scratching around it.
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Fern
Todea barbara
Ancient rare and long lived fern with yellow-green foliage. Hardy in sun and dry. Frost tender.
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Tree
Toronia toru - Toru
Slow growing specimen tree on dry gumland soils. Erect habit. Fragrant yellow flowers (spring).
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Triglochin striata
An attractive wetland plant along the shoreline of lakes, bogs and salt marshes. It can be semi-aquatic floating in dense swards as rafts in water 1 metre deep.
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Grass
Trisetum antarcticum
An attractive rare grass for difficult conditions like rock gardens or coastal areas. May not get to same size in cultivation as in the wild.
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Grass
Trisetum arduanum
A coastal plant that likes to be on cliffs. Attractive flower heads. Foliage usually hangs down slopes of cliffs. Uncommon for the Auckland area.
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Grass
Trisetum lepidum
In open forest (often Nothofagus), scrub or tussock grassland showing a distinct preference for calcareous rocks. An attractive and easily grown grass. Does best in damp ground in a cool, shaded spot.
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Sedge & Rush-like
Typha orientalis - Raupo
Forms spreading pale green clumps. Deciduous. Classic Bulrush with large furry brown seed heads.
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Sedge & Rush-like
Uncinia banksii - Hook Grass
Fine-leaved grass-like tussock. Good in the shade.
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Uncinia distans
An attractive dark green clumping plant that likes moist areas in the bush. Easy to estabilsh and the hooks on the seed are not as nasty as those of U. uncinata.
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Uncinia egmontiana - Hook Grass
Forms dense, dark-red tussocks. Similar to Uncinia rubra but more compact seed heads.
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Uncinia ferruginea - Hooked sedge
A broad leaf form of Uncinia with coarse seed heads distinctively different from the more common Uncinia uncinata.
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Uncinia gracilenta
Dark green clump-forming plant. Fast-growing and easy.
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Uncinia rubra - Red Hook Sedge
Forms dense, dark-red tussocks.
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Uncinia strictissima
Rich bronze when young and dull bronze when old. Erect in form and rare in the wild.
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