| Scientific Name: | Digitalis purpurea |
| Common Name: | foxglove |
| Family Name: | Plantaginaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Biennial |
| 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, Medicinal plant, Perennial border, Woodland margin |
| Exposure: | Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pinnate venation, Pubescent, Elliptic, Lanceolate, Ovate, Dentate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Purple, Pink, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Jun-Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, ovate to lanceolate or elliptical, margins scalloped; flowers on long racemes all summer long; capsules may form near peduncle while new flower buds open at tip. | |