Ourisia glandulosa

Ourisia glandulosa plants are perennial herbs. The stems are creeping, and densely packed with prostrate, opposite and often distichous leaves. Leaf petioles are 1.8–5.0 mm long. Leaf blades are 4.7–10.6 mm long by 3.0–8.4 mm wide (length: width ratio 1.2–1.5: 1), usually narrowly to broadly obovate or spathulate, widest above the middle, with a rounded apex, attenuate base and smooth edge (or sometimes with few irregular notches). Leaves are sparsely to densely hairy with non-glandular hairs near the tip on the upper surface but glabrous on the lower surface, and densely punctate on both surfaces. Inflorescences are erect, densely hairy racemes up to 143 mm long, with a mixture of glandular and non-glandular hairs, and with 1–4 flowering nodes and up to 7 total flowers per raceme. Each flowering node 1–2 flowers and 2 sessile, clasping bracts that are usually narrowly to very broadly obovate. The lowest bracts are similar to the leaves, 6.0–9.1 mm long and 3.6–8.0 mm wide, and become smaller toward the apex of the raceme. The flowers are borne on a densely hairy pedicel that is up to 22 mm long and has a mixture of glandular and non-glandular hairs. The calyx is 6.2–8.6 mm long, irregular, with 3 lobes divided to about one-quarter the length of the calyx and 2 divided to near the base, and densely hairy with a mixture of glandular and non-glandular hairs. …

Ourisia glandulosa is a New Zealand mountain foxglove that is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. It is widespread and common in most high-elevation areas of Otago, especially around snowbanks, and can also be found in some high-elevation areas of nearby southern Canterbury and Southland. It grows in damp, rocky, sheltered areas of herbfields, grasslands and scrub above the bush line from 1,050 to 2,000 m (3,440 to 6,560 ft) above sea level.