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Ourisia alpina is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Chile and Argentina. Eduard Poeppig and Stephan Endlicher described O. alpina in 1835. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are perennial, rosette herbs mostly hairless, crenate leaves. There can be up to 20 flowers on a long, erect raceme, and each flower has a regular calyx, and a long, bilabiate, tubular-funnelform, light to dark pink or purple corolla with included stamens. The calyx and corolla are usually hairless or with some glandular hairs on the outside.
Ourisia alpina is native to the Andes mountains of Chile and Argentina from approximately 34°S to 42°S latitude. In Chile it is found in the regions of Maule, Ñuble, Biobío, Araucanía, Los Ríos and Los Lagos, and in Argentina it is found in the provinces of Mendoza, Neuquén and Río Negro. It is relatively common from 1000 to 2700 m above sea level in rocky, wet habitats above the tree line.
Ourisia biflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. uniflora · Ourisia breviflora · Creeping Mountain Foxglove · Ourisia calycina · Ourisia chamaedrifolia · Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans · Ourisia coccinea · Ourisia confertifolia · Ourisia cotapatensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ourisia alpina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
