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Mountain foxglove

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Mountain foxglove

Mountain foxgloves (Ourisia macrophylla) are common herbs of damp alpine and subalpine sites. They consist of tufts of thick oval leaves. Their 60-centimetre-tall flowering stalks bear whorls of white flowers with yellow throats.

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Hugh Wilson, Alpine plants – Survival, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/11049/mountain-foxglove (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Hugh Wilson, published 1 March 2009.