Overview
In January 2017, Research Scientist Heidi Meudt, and Collection Manager Antony Kusabs explored numerous sites in Kahurangi and Nelson Lakes National Parks. They also reached into Richmond Forest Park. They were joined in their search by Department of Conservation Botanists John Rowan Hindmarsh-Walls, Shannel Courtney and Simon Walls in Kahurangi and by Landcare Resaerch Sicentist Jessie Prebble and Landcare Intern Zuri Burns.
Fifteen populations of nine native Myosotis species were located. A herbarium specimen and leaf samples for DNA research were collected for each species to help address key research questions as part of Te Papa's Myosotis research program.
Other indigenous and naturalised species were also collected as part of general Te Papa collection development to improve our knowledge of what grows where in New Zealand.
Read more about this trip on the Te Papa blog:
Hit rate high in high-country forget-me-not search
Most of the collection records and photos of plants we collected on this trip can be seen here (scroll down to "Related Objects" below).