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Ourisia serpyllifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to the Andes mountains of central Chile. George Bentham described O. serpyllifolia in 1846. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are small, showy, perennial, many-branched and suffruticose with toothed, opposite leaves. The flowers are solitary, with a regular calyx, and a regular corolla. The calyx and corolla both have tiny glandular hairs. The corolla is violet, but the corolla tube is yellow and hairy inside.
The species has been successfully cultivated by rock gardening enthusiasts, and artificial interspecific hybrids have been made between it and the other two suffruticose species, O. polyantha and O. microphylla.
Ourisia serpyllifolia is endemic to Chile in the Andes mountainous from 29 to 36°S latitude. It is found in the Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Santiago Metropolitan, and Maule Regions of Chile. This species is rare and can be found in rocky habitats sometimes near streams from 1,000 to 3,400 m (3,300 to 11,200 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 serpyllifolia 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.
