The species is endemic to the Canary Islands, and is found mainly in the national park surrounding Mount Teide in Tenerife.

[1] The Latin specific epithet wildpretii honours the 19th century Swiss botanist Hermann Josef Wildpret.

The plant grows in the subalpine zone of the ravines of Mount Teide, a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain.

[3][4] Under conditions where water availability was normal there was no indication of inbreeding depression measured as seedling survival.

[5] This plant can be found as a garden ornamental but is intolerant of low temperatures, thus some winter protection is required in frost-prone areas.