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Ourisia muscosa is a small, mat-forming perennial herb from high Andean wetlands and rocky slopes, with white outer and yellow-hairy inner flowers. It is a cold-hardy alpine plant rather than a common garden or houseplant, and grows best in cool, moist, peaty conditions.
Ourisia muscosa is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to páramo habitats in the Tropical Andes mountains of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. George Bentham described O. muscosa in 1846. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are small, perennial, and repent herbs with entire and tightly clustered, sometimes opposite, leaves. The flowers are solitary, with a regular calyx, and a regular corolla, and with two floral bracts that cover the calyx. The calyx has tiny glandular hairs, whereas the corolla is glabrous and white on the outside, and yellow and hairy inside.
Ourisia muscosa is found throughout the Andes from 5°N to 19°S latitude in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and northern Chile. This species is commonly found in wet or rocky high-elevation páramo, superpáramo and puna habitats including bogs, stream banks, lake edges, meadows, and rocky slopes from 3800 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 chamaedrifolia · Ourisia coccinea subsp. coccinea · Ourisia coccinea subsp. elegans · Ourisia coccinea · Ourisia confertifolia
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ourisia muscosa 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.
