A graceful, flax-like New Zealand native with weeping foliage and distinctive twisted seed pods. Mountain Flax is particularly valued for its strong root system, making it an excellent choice for erosion control, riparian margins, and landscape plantings that support native wildlife.
🌱 Plant Facts
• Growth habit: Flax-like perennial forming broad clumps
• Foliage: Shiny green, wide, weeping leaves
• Seed pods: Drooping and twisted, adding strong visual interest
• Height: Up to 2.5 m
• Flowering: September – January
o Flower colour: Red/pink or yellow
• Fruiting: December – March
🌍 Natural Habitat
• Strictly confined to subalpine and alpine environments
• Naturally adapted to cold, exposed, and often harsh conditions
🌿 Growing Environment
• Frost tolerant
• Sun tolerant
• Drought tolerant once established
• Salt tolerant
• Wetland tolerant
• Wind tolerant
• Coastal tolerant
Highly adaptable in cultivation despite its alpine origins, provided it has adequate space and light.
📍 Endemic Distribution
• Common in the South Island in subalpine and alpine zones
• Scarce in the North Island, known mainly from high alpine sites in the Tararua Ranges and possibly other central axial ranges
🌾 Uses
• Bird food and attractant (excellent nectar source)
• Bee food
• Landscaping and feature plantings
• Riparian margins, banks, and erosion-prone sites
🪴 Cultivation Notes (Live Plant)
A tough, long-lived flax that is slow to establish and slow growing, but extremely resilient once settled. Best planted in full sun to light shade with room to develop its wide clump and extensive root system. Particularly well suited to exposed sites, slopes, and restoration plantings where stability and ecological value are required.
📏 Approximate product size:
• PB3/4 (5cm – 20cm, 350ml)
• PB3 (20cm – 70cm, 1.5L)
• PB8 (50cm+, 3.5L)
⏱️ Timeframe:
We ship Monday – Wednesday for South Island customers and Monday/Tuesday for Rural and North Island customers. Orders placed outside these days will be fulfilled the following week.
📦 Local pick ups and/or deliveries will be made by arrangement.
🌱 We’ll donate $1 per plant sold to national conservation efforts, helping to protect and restore New Zealand’s natural heritage
A graceful, flax-like New Zealand native with weeping foliage and distinctive twisted seed pods. Mountain Flax is particularly valued for its strong root system, making it an excellent choice for erosion control, riparian margins, and landscape plantings that support native wildlife.
🌱 Plant Facts
• Growth habit: Flax-like perennial forming broad clumps
• Foliage: Shiny green, wide, weeping leaves
• Seed pods: Drooping and twisted, adding strong visual interest
• Height: Up to 2.5 m
• Flowering: September – January
o Flower colour: Red/pink or yellow
• Fruiting: December – March
🌍 Natural Habitat
• Strictly confined to subalpine and alpine environments
• Naturally adapted to cold, exposed, and often harsh conditions
🌿 Growing Environment
• Frost tolerant
• Sun tolerant
• Drought tolerant once established
• Salt tolerant
• Wetland tolerant
• Wind tolerant
• Coastal tolerant
Highly adaptable in cultivation despite its alpine origins, provided it has adequate space and light.
📍 Endemic Distribution
• Common in the South Island in subalpine and alpine zones
• Scarce in the North Island, known mainly from high alpine sites in the Tararua Ranges and possibly other central axial ranges
🌾 Uses
• Bird food and attractant (excellent nectar source)
• Bee food
• Landscaping and feature plantings
• Riparian margins, banks, and erosion-prone sites
🪴 Cultivation Notes (Live Plant)
A tough, long-lived flax that is slow to establish and slow growing, but extremely resilient once settled. Best planted in full sun to light shade with room to develop its wide clump and extensive root system. Particularly well suited to exposed sites, slopes, and restoration plantings where stability and ecological value are required.
📏 Approximate product size:
• PB3/4 (5cm – 20cm, 350ml)
• PB3 (20cm – 70cm, 1.5L)
• PB8 (50cm+, 3.5L)
⏱️ Timeframe:
We ship Monday – Wednesday for South Island customers and Monday/Tuesday for Rural and North Island customers. Orders placed outside these days will be fulfilled the following week.
📦 Local pick ups and/or deliveries will be made by arrangement.
🌱 We’ll donate $1 per plant sold to national conservation efforts, helping to protect and restore New Zealand’s natural heritage
