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Lysipomia laricina

Lysipomia laricina
Photo: Leonardo Vivar Ayora, CC BY-SA 4.0

Lysipomia laricina is a small subshrub from the bellflower family, known only from Ecuador. It grows wild in high-altitude tropical grassland, so it is a specialist plant of cool, wet mountain habitat rather than a common garden subject.

Family
Campanulaceae (Campanul family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Keep the soil moist during growth and let the top layer dry lightly between waterings.
Soil
Free-draining, humus-rich mix with some grit.
Temperature
10–18 °C; protect from frost and sustained heat above 25 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Ecuador
Climate
wet tropical

About

Lysipomia laricina is a species of plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland.

Other Lysipomia plants

Lysipomia acaulis · Lysipomia aretioides · Lysipomia bilineata · Lysipomia caespitosa · Lysipomia crassomarginata · Lysipomia cuspidata · Lysipomia cylindrocarpa · Lysipomia lehmannii · Lysipomia oellgaardii · Lysipomia rhizomata · Lysipomia sparrei · Lysipomia speciosa

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lysipomia laricina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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