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Ourisia modesta; photograph (c) Lorraine Cook, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Lorraine Cook, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-05-03

Ourisia modesta Diels

Plantaginaceae · New Zealand North, New Zealand South

No habitat climate
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Summary

Ourisia modesta or creeping foxglove is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae that is endemic to New Zealand and was described by Ludwig Diels in 1909. Plants of this species are perennial, small-leaved, creeping herbs that are mostly glabrous (hairless). They have very broadly ovate to circular leaves that are opposite and widely spaced along a horizontal stem. The flowers are solitary in each node, with an irregular calyx and a small, white irregular corolla. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ourisia modesta", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 36 of the 38 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew Zealand North, New Zealand South · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-40.965, 172.937 · in the densest population, 24 records (63% of those in range)
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 38 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 26 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 36 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 38 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Lorraine Cook, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Ourisia 9 in the reference

Ourisia alpina Ourisia alpina Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Morten RossOurisia caespitosa Ourisia caespitosa Creeping mountain foxglove Photo: CC BY-SA, Jacob LittlejohnOurisia coccinea Ourisia coccinea Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Cody HinchliffOurisia glandulosa Ourisia glandulosa Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Irisa HudsonOurisia macrocarpa Ourisia macrocarpa Snowy mountain foxglove Photo: CC BY, John BarklaOurisia macrophylla Ourisia macrophylla Mountain foxglove Photo: CC BY, Angus CampbellOurisia microphylla Ourisia microphylla Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Grzegorz GrzejszczakOurisia ruellioides Ourisia ruellioides Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Ariadna TripaldiOurisia vulcanica Ourisia vulcanica Plantaginaceae Photo: CC BY, Lorraine Cook

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipediaiNaturalist

The record

Family
Plantaginaceae
Described by
Diels
Native to
New Zealand North, New Zealand South
Wild records
38 in range · 26 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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