Scientific Name: Digitalis purpurea
Common Name: foxglove
Family Name: Plantaginaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C)
Plant Type: Biennial, Invasive plant
Mature Size: 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Stiffly upright
Form: Oval - vertical
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Attract birds, Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Woodland margin
Exposure: Full sun only if soil kept moist, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Lanceolate, Ovate, Crenate
Flowers: Raceme, White, Yellow, Purple, Pink, Apr-May-Jun-Jul
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Jun-Jul-Aug
Key ID Features:
Leaves basal and then alternate on flowering stem, most blades ovate-lanceolate, 18-25(-30)cm long x 6-8(-10)cm wide, margin crenate, pubescent, petiole winged, 2-10cm long; flowers usually pink-purple (white and yellow cvs.), tubular, 3-5cm long x 2-4cm wide, on a one-sided raceme 60-120(-150)cm long, capsules form near the base while new flower buds may continue opening at tips, Jun-Aug.