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Ourisia chamaedrifolia is a small, creeping perennial herb from the high Andes of South America, growing in wet or rocky alpine páramo habitats at 2000 to 5000 m. It is a cool-climate alpine plant that needs cool, moist conditions rather than heat.
Ourisia chamaedrifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to páramo habitats in the Tropical Andes mountains of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. George Bentham described O. chamaedrifolia in 1846. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are small, perennial, and repent herbs with opposite, crenate, and often hairy leaves. There can be up to four flowers on a short raceme, and each flower has a regular calyx, and a long, tubular, red or orange-red nearly bilabiate corolla with exserted stamens. The calyx and corolla are often hairless.
Ourisia chamaedrifolia is found throughout the Andes from 8°N to 18°S latitude in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. This species is found in wet or rocky high-elevation páramo, superpáramo and puna habitats including bogs, as well as rocky places, from 2000 to 5000 m above sea level.
Ourisia alpina · Ourisia biflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. breviflora · Ourisia breviflora subsp. uniflora · Ourisia breviflora · Creeping Mountain Foxglove · Ourisia calycina · Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans · Ourisia coccinea · Ourisia confertifolia · Ourisia cotapatensis
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ourisia chamaedrifolia 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.
