Ourisia Alpina

Ourisia alpina is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to mountainous habitats of the Andes of southern Chile and Argentina. Eduard Poeppig and Stephan Endlicher described O. alpina in 1835. Plants of this species of South American foxglove are perennial, rosette herbs mostly hairless, crenate leaves. There can be up to 20 flowers on a long, erect raceme, and each flower has a regular calyx, and a long, bilabiate, tubular-funnelform, light to dark pink or purple corolla with included stamens. The calyx and corolla are usually hairless or with some glandular hairs on the outside.

PLATES