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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Yareta
| image = Yareta_Peru.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Yareta on slopes of Nevado Coropuna, [[Peru]]
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Apiales]]
| familia = [[Apiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Azorella]]''
| species = '''''A. yareta'''''
| binomial = ''Azorella yareta''
| binomial_authority = Haumen.
}}
'''Yareta''' (''Azorella compacta'', also known as ''Azorella yareta'' in the past) is a tiny [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Apiaceae]] native to [[South America]], occurring in the [[Puna grassland]]s of the [[Andes]] in [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Chile]] and the west of [[Argentina]] at between 3200 and 4500 metres altitude.
Yareta is an [[evergreen]] perennial being in leaf all year. The pink or lavender [[flower]]s are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by [[insect]]s. The plant is self-fertile.
The plant prefers light (sandy) and well-drained soils. It can grow in nutritionally poor environments, no matter if the soil is acidic, neutral or basic (alkaline). Yareta is well-adapted to high insolation rates which are typical of the highlands, and cannot grow in shade. The plant grows in a very compact way in order to reduce heat losses and very close to ground level where air temperature is one or two degrees Celsius higher than the mean air temperature, this is due to the longwave radiation re-radiated by the soil (which is usually dark gray to black in the Puna).
The plant grows at a rate of approximately one millimeter per year, and thus many yaretas are over 3,000 years old.
==External links==
*[http://www.chilebosque.cl/shrb/acomp.html ''Azorella compacta'' pictures from Chile]
[[Category:Apiaceae]]
[[category:flowers]]
[[category:Flora of Argentina]]
[[category:Flora of Chile]]
| color = lightgreen
| name = Yareta
| image = Yareta_Peru.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Yareta on slopes of Nevado Coropuna, [[Peru]]
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Apiales]]
| familia = [[Apiaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Azorella]]''
| species = '''''A. yareta'''''
| binomial = ''Azorella yareta''
| binomial_authority = Haumen.
}}
'''Yareta''' (''Azorella compacta'', also known as ''Azorella yareta'' in the past) is a tiny [[flowering plant]] in the family [[Apiaceae]] native to [[South America]], occurring in the [[Puna grassland]]s of the [[Andes]] in [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Chile]] and the west of [[Argentina]] at between 3200 and 4500 metres altitude.
Yareta is an [[evergreen]] perennial being in leaf all year. The pink or lavender [[flower]]s are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by [[insect]]s. The plant is self-fertile.
The plant prefers light (sandy) and well-drained soils. It can grow in nutritionally poor environments, no matter if the soil is acidic, neutral or basic (alkaline). Yareta is well-adapted to high insolation rates which are typical of the highlands, and cannot grow in shade. The plant grows in a very compact way in order to reduce heat losses and very close to ground level where air temperature is one or two degrees Celsius higher than the mean air temperature, this is due to the longwave radiation re-radiated by the soil (which is usually dark gray to black in the Puna).
The plant grows at a rate of approximately one millimeter per year, and thus many yaretas are over 3,000 years old.
==External links==
*[http://www.chilebosque.cl/shrb/acomp.html ''Azorella compacta'' pictures from Chile]
[[Category:Apiaceae]]
[[category:flowers]]
[[category:Flora of Argentina]]
[[category:Flora of Chile]]
