A hybrid, h. salicifolia _ h. speciosa. Shrub to about 2.5 m tall. Leaves to 11 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, ovate to lanceolate, with prominent veins, stalked. Flowers in dense spikes to about 15 cm long, violet, fading.
Heenan (1994a).
Source: (2002). Scrophulariaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Hebe ×andersonii 'Midsummer Beauty'
New leaves reddish below. Flowers violet.
Raised, probably in the 1940s, at Seaford and introduced by J. Cheal & Sons, Crawley, UK.
Leaves mottled grey-green and with a creamy margin. Sometimes reverts to green leaves.
Originated at least as early as 1874.