Browsing items filed under: Partial Shade × Tolerates Wind/Exposed × Frost Hardy × Moist/damp × Carex secta Purei Found in swampy areas throughout NZ. Carex solandrii Sedge Sedge found in damp areas throughout NZ. Metrosideros umbellata Southern rata Rare in the North Island, found more commonly on the west coast of the South where the rainfall is higher.