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Ourisia spathulata is a small, velvety-leaved perennial herb from high-elevation Southland, New Zealand, where it grows in alpine herbfields and rocky ground. It is a rare, naturally uncommon species and is rarely grown in gardens, so care guidance is limited to general cool-climate Ourisia needs.
Ourisia spathulata is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to high-elevation habitats in Southland on the South Island of New Zealand. Mary Kalin Arroyo described O. spathulata in 1984. Plants of this species of New Zealand mountain foxglove are perennial, small-leaved herbs that are covered in a mixture of glandular and non-glandular hairs. They have velvety, hairy, crenate, spathulate leaves that are oppositely arranged and tightly packed along the creeping stem. The flowers are single or in pairs in each node, with a zygomorphic calyx and corolla. The corolla is white and the corolla tube is glabrous and yellow inside. It is listed as At Risk - Naturally Uncommon.
Ourisia spathulata is a New Zealand mountain foxglove that is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is found only in northern Southland in high-elevation habitats in herbfields, grasslands or rocky, shaded and often dry habitats from 1,200 to 1,430 m (3,940 to 4,690 ft) above sea level in the Thomson, Livingstone, and Eyre Mountains, and on East Dome.
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
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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.
