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Ourisia macrocarpa
Ourisia macrocarpa or snowy mountain foxglove is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described O. macrocarpa in 1853. Plants of this species of New Zealand foxglove are showy, perennial, large-leaved, tufted, rhizomatous herbs that are mostly glabrous (hairless) or with some non-glandular hairs. They have broadly ovate leaves. The flowers are in whorls in each node, with an irregular calyx, a large, white irregular corolla, and fruits up to 1 cm long. The corolla tube is yellow with three lines of yellow hairs inside. It is listed as Not Threatened.
Ourisia macrocarpa is endemic to southern South Island, New Zealand, in Otago, Southland and Fiordland). It is found in subalpine herbfields, scrub, bogs and grasslands in wet habitats from 360 to 1,550 m (1,180 to 5,090 ft) above sea level.
Ourisia alpina · 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
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ourisia macrocarpa 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.
