CREATE TABLE default.lc_test
(   
    `id` LowCardinality(String)
)
ENGINE = MergeTree
PARTITION BY tuple()
ORDER BY id;

Ok.
0 rows in set. Elapsed: 0.003 sec.


insert into lc_test values (toString('a'));
Exception on client:
Code: 49. DB::Exception: Bad cast from type DB::ColumnString to DB::ColumnLowCardinality: data for INSERT was parsed from query