A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Washington State
Hosted by the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum
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Plantaginaceae » Digitalis purpurea
Digitalis purpurea L.[HC, HC2]
purple foxglove
Publication: Sp. Pl. 2: 621-622. 1753.
Origin: Introduced from Eurasia
Herbarium search: CPNWH
Notes: FNA17: "Digitalis purpurea was once used as a commercial source of digitalin, is widely cultivated, and has many cultivars. Some plants have been identified as European subspecies; all variability in the flora area appears to be from cultivars of subsp. purpurea. Digitalis ×mertonensis B. H. Buxton & C. D. Darlington (strawberry or giant foxglove) is a hybrid of D. purpurea with D. grandiflora that is sometimes cultivated."
Infraspecies:
ssp. purpurea
purple foxglove
Last updated 7/6/2020 by David Giblin.
Synonyms & Misapplied Names:
(none)
