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Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. splendida

Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. splendida
Photo: John Barkla, CC BY 4.0

A small perennial rosette herb from the high mountains of New Zealand's South Island, with white flowers with purple-tinged tubes. It is grown in alpine and rock gardens that stay cool and moist.

Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist in growing season; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty, humus-rich mix.
Temperature
5–20 °C; tolerates cold winters well, dislikes prolonged heat above 25 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. splendida is a subspecies of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to high-elevation habitats in the South Island and Stewart Island of New Zealand. Joseph Dalton Hooker described O. sessilifolia in 1864. Plants of this subspecies of New Zealand mountain foxglove are perennial, small-leaved, rosette herbs that are covered in a mixture of short glandular hairs and long non-glandular hairs. They have hairy, crenate, ovate leaves that are in a basal rosette. The flowers are in pairs or whorls in each node, with a and regular calyx and a white regular corolla. The corolla tube is purple inside, with one line of white hairs inside, and purple outside. It is listed as Not Threatened.

Where it grows

Ourisia sessilifolia subsp. splendida is a New Zealand mountain foxglove that is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is found in along the main divide in the Southern Alps in Canterbury and Westland. It occupies high-elevation herbfields, meadows and grasslands in rocky habitats from 1,140 to 1,800 m (3,740 to 5,910 ft) above sea level.

Other Ourisia plants

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 sessilifolia subsp. splendida 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.

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