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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. |