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Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is a toxic species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, [2] native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe. [3] It has also naturalized in parts of North America, as well as some other temperate regions. The plant is a popular garden subject, with many ...
Digitalis isabelliana is a broadleaf evergreen perennial shrub, growing up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in height, with a much-branched woody base. The leaves are broadly ovate, dark green, glabrous, and with a serrated margin. The flowers are russet, orange or terracotta in colour, with long, beak-shaped hoods, and grow in long spikes. [4] [5]
Hendrik Goltzius, A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, National Gallery of Art, NGA 94900 The generic epithet Digitalis is from the Latin digitus (finger). [8] Leonhart Fuchs first invented the name for this plant in his 1542 book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Notable comments on the history of plants), based upon the German vernacular name Fingerhut, [9] [10] which translates literally as ...
It is a herbaceous perennial growing from a short rootstock with fibrous roots. [4] D. grandiflora has glossy green, veined leaves, whose flowering stem can reach a height of 70–120 cm (28–47 in). The pale yellow bell-shaped flowers are spaced out on the stem, 3–4 cm (1–2 in) long and show a netted brown marking in their interior. [5]
A phreatophyte is a deep-rooted plant that obtains a significant portion of the water that it needs from the phreatic zone (zone of saturation) or the capillary fringe above the phreatic zone. Phreatophytes are plants that are supplied with surface water and often have their roots constantly in touch with moisture.
Digitalis lanata, vernacularly often called woolly foxglove [3] or Grecian foxglove, [4] is a species of foxglove, a flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It gets its name due to the woolly indumentum of the leaves. D. lanata, like other foxglove species, is toxic in all parts of the plant. Symptoms of digitalis poisoning ...
Digitalis parviflora, the small-flowered foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is endemic to northern and central Spain. [2] [3] [4] It grows at (rarely 200-) 500–2000 metres in altitude. [4] It was first described as a species by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in the first half of the 1770s. [1]
Digitalis sceptrum (previously known as isoplexis sceptrum) is a tender evergreen shrub in the foxglove family, growing up to 1.8m. high. Leaves are toothed and oblong or ovate in shape; flowers consist of racemes of yellow, orange or tawny russet, often netted with chocolate-brown, appearing in summer. [3]