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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]
Penstemon digitalis (known by the common names foxglove beard-tongue, [3] foxglove beardtongue, talus slope penstemon, [4] and white beardtongue [5]) is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family, Plantaginaceae. The flowers are white and are borne in summer.
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 ...
Agalinis (false foxglove) is a genus of about 70 species in North, Central, and South America that until recently was aligned with members of the family Scrophulariaceae. [2] As a result of numerous molecular phylogenetic studies based on various chloroplast DNA ( cpDNA ) loci, it was shown to be more closely related to members of the ...
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 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]
Agalinis aspera, the rough agalinis, rough false foxglove, or tall false foxglove, is a non-poisonous plant of the genus Agalinis, habitating in the dry prairies. It can grow to be about eight to twenty-four inches tall. When the flowers bloom, the colors vary between purple and pink.
Penstemon cobaea is a flowering plant in the plantain family, commonly known as Cobaea beardtongue, prairie penstemon or foxglove penstemon. The plant is native to the central United States, primarily the Great Plains from Nebraska to Texas, with additional populations in the Ozarks of Missouri and Arkansas.