| Description | Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) A tall biennial with pink to purple flowers. Being a biennial it grows foliage one year, flowers the next, and dies. |
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| Pronunciation | (dij-i-TAL-is)(pur-PU-ree-ah) |
| Plant Type | Biennials |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-8 |
| Sunlight | part sun |
| Moisture | prefers constantly moist, tolerates average |
| Soil & Site | prefers well drained, organic rich |
| Flowers | one-sided racemes , pendulous, tubular funnel shaped flowers, dark rose-pink to purple, blooms the second year from seed |
| Leaves | forms a basal rosette of green leaves the first year |
| Dimensions | 2-4 or 5 feet tall |
| Maintenance | freely self-seeds if it likes the site, may need staking |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Native Site | Native to western, south and central Europe. |
| Misc Facts | Some authorities point out that the Germans called foxglove Fingerhut (thimble) and Leonhard Fuchs (1501-1566), the German botanist after whom the fuchsia genus (Fuchsia) was named is said to have proposed that the plant be called Digitalis derived from the Latin digitabulum (thimble). On the other hand there are others who suggest the name is derived from Latin digiti- (finger) with reference to the shape of the flowers. (www.plantlives.com) |
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