Digitalis

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Overview

Herbs, rarely basally woody. Stems simple or branched at base. Leaves alternate, large, often crowded below, margin entire or toothed. Flowers in terminal, often secund racemes. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes imbricate. Corolla oblique, tubular-campanulate, often constricted beyond ovary, somewhat ventricose; limb slightly 2-lipped; lower lip 3-lobed, middle lobe longer than lateral lobes; upper lip lobes much reduc ed, emarginate. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers touching in pairs, locules divaricate, apically confluent. Style 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, septicidal. Seeds numerous, oblong to subovoid, small, ribbed; seed coat scrobiculate-reticulate.

About 25 species: Asia, Europe; one species cultivated in China.^[1]

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Taxonomy

The Genus Digitalis is further organized into finer groupings including:

• Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 280 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Digitalis: D. 'Apricot Beauty' · D. 'Ashdon Glory' · D. 'Boston Bells' · D. 'Butterfingers' · D. 'Butterfingers' × ferruginea · D. 'Butterfingers' × laevigata subsp. laevigata · D. 'Butterfingers' × obscura · D. 'Callisto' · D. 'Electrum' · D. 'Elsie Kelsey' · D. 'Flashing Spires' · D. 'Foxley Primrose' · D. 'Frosty' · D. 'Genisis' · D. 'Glory of Roundway' (Foxglove) · D. 'Gold Crest' · D. 'Hildig' · D. 'John Innes Tetra' (Digitalis) · D. 'Little Spook' · D. 'Loxley Manor' · D. 'Mary Burston' · D. 'Mellennium Queen' · D. 'Mirabelle' · D. 'Molten Ore' · D. 'Nightshade' · D. 'Red Skin' · D. 'Roundway Gold' · D. 'Saltwood Summer' · D. 'Saltwood' · D. 'Silver Anniversary' · D. 'Spice Island' · D. 'Strawberry Crush' · D. acuta · D. alba · D. amandiana · D. ambigua · D. americana · D. atlantica · D. aurea · D. australis · D. ballii · D. brachyantha · D. canariensis · D. cariensis · D. carnea · D. carpetana · D. cedretorum · D. charrelii · D. chinensis · D. ciliata (Foxglove Digitalis Ciliata) · D. cochinchinensis · D. comosa · D. cream hybrids · D. dasyantha · D. davisiana (Foxglove) · D. di-tellae · D. dracocephaloides · D. dubia (Dwarf Spanish Foxglove) · D. dubia var. palaui · D. dubla · D. epiglottidea · D. eriostachya · D. ferrugina · D. ferruginea (Rusty Foxglove) · D. ferruginea 'Gelber Herold' (Rusty Foxglove) · D. ferruginea 'Gigantea' (Gigantea Rusty Foxglove) · D. ferruginea f. membranaceoviolacea · D. ferruginea var. schischkinii · D. ferruginea × grandiflora · D. flava · D. floribunda · D. fontanesii · D. fucata · D. fulva · D. fusca · D. gloxinioides · D. glutinosa · D. graeca · D. graeca var. megalantha · D. grandiflora (Yellow Perennial Foxglove) · D. grandiflora 'Carillon' (Yellow Foxglove) · D. grandiflora 'Carlyon' · D. grandiflora 'Dropmore Yellow' · D. grandiflora 'Dwarf Carillon' · D. grandiflora 'Dwarf Temple Bells' · D. grandiflora 'Temple Bells' · D. guelli · D. gyspergerae · D. heldreichii · D. heywoodii · D. hybrida · D. ikizdere · D. integrifolia · D. intermedia · D. isabelliana · D. laciniata · D. laciniata subsp. riphaea · D. laegivata · D. laevigata (Grecian Foxglove) · D. laevigata graeca · D. laevigata laevigata · D. laevigata laevigata × obscura · D. laevigata white-flowered · D. lamarckii (Foxglove) · D. lanata (Grecian Foxglove) · D. lanata 'Cafe Creme' · D. lantana 'Cafe Cream' · D. leucocephala · D. leucophaea · D. libertiana · D. lingulata · D. longebracteata · D. longiflora · D. lurida · D. lutea (Small Yellow Foxglove) · D. lutea 'Flashing Spires' · D. lutea 'Ray Holland' · D. lutea 'Sarah' · D. lutea 'Yellow Medley' · D. lutea australis · D. lutea Brickell's form (Straw Foxglove) · D. lutea lutea (Straw Foxglove) · D. lutea subsp. australis · D. lutea transiens · D. lutea-majar · D. lyrata · D. macedonica · D. macrostachya · D. magniflora · D. major · D. mariana · D. mariana heywoodii · D. mariana subsp. heywoodii · D. mauretanica · D. mauritanica · D. media · D. mertonensis · D. micrantha · D. milleri · D. miniana · D. minor · D. minor palaui · D. minor var. minor · D. minor var. palaui · D. nadji · D. nervosa · D. nevadensis · D. nova · D. nutans · D. obscura (Willow Leaf Foxglove) · D. obscura 'Dusky Maid' · D. obscura dwarf · D. obscura laciniata · D. obscura obscura (Willow-Leaf Foxglove) · D. obscura × Isoplexis canariensis · D. obtusa · D. ochroleuca · D. orientalis · D. oscura · D. parviflora (Foxglove) · D. parviflora 'Milk Chocolate' · D. pelia · D. pichleri · D. pilosa · D. purpera 'Elsie Kelsey' · D. purpurascens · D. purpurea (Apricot Blush Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Apricot Beauty' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Apricot Blush' · D. purpurea 'Apricot Faerie Queen' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Apricot' (Apricot Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Berggold' · D. purpurea 'Berygold' · D. purpurea 'Camelot Cream' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Camelot Lavender' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Camelot Mix' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Camelot Rose' (Camelot Rose Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Camelot White' (Camelot White Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Campanulata Alba' · D. purpurea 'Campanulata' · D. purpurea 'Candy Mountain' · D. purpurea 'Chedglow' · D. purpurea 'Danby Lodge' · D. purpurea 'Excelsior Group' · D. purpurea 'Excelsior Hybrids' (Excelsior Group Foxglove Digitalis Purpurea) · D. purpurea 'Excelsior Mix' (Excelsior Mix Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Foxy Mix' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Foxy' (Foxy Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Gelbe Lance' hybrids · D. purpurea 'Gelbe Lanze' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Giant Shirley' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Glittering Prizes Group' (Glittering Prizes Group Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Gloxiniaeflora' · D. purpurea 'Gloxiniflora' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Hyacinth Hybrids' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Hybridum' · D. purpurea 'Jellito's Apricot' · D. purpurea 'Monstrosa' · D. purpurea 'Pam's Choice' (Pam's Choice Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Primrose Carousel' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Saltwood Summer' · D. purpurea 'Snow Thimble' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Suffrans Hybrids' · D. purpurea 'Sutton's Apricot' (Sutton's Apricot Foxglove) · D. purpurea 'Sutton's Giant Primrose' · D. purpurea 'Tinkerbell' · D. purpurea 'Torpedo Cream' · D. purpurea 'Torpedo Lilac Rose' · D. purpurea alba · D. purpurea amandiana · D. purpurea bocquetii · D. purpurea Camelot Series · D. purpurea carpetana · D. purpurea dwarf red-flowered · D. purpurea Excelsior Group primrose-flowered · D. purpurea Excelsior Group white-flowered · D. purpurea f. albiflora (White Flowered Common Foxglove Digitalis Purpurea F. Albiflora) · D. purpurea f. albiflora 'Anne Redetzky' · D. purpurea f. albiflora unspotted · D. purpurea f. dubia · D. purpurea f. palaui · D. purpurea Foxy Group · D. purpurea Giant Spotted Group · D. purpurea Giant Spotted Group pink · D. purpurea Giant Spotted Group purple · D. purpurea Giant Spotted Group white · D. purpurea Glittering Prizes Group maroon · D. purpurea Glittering Prizes Group white · D. purpurea Gloxinioides Group · D. purpurea heywoodii (Foxglove) · D. purpurea heywoodii 'Silver Fox' (Foxglove) · D. purpurea mariana (Foxglove) · D. purpurea mauretanica · D. purpurea nevadensis · D. purpurea peloric · D. purpurea subsp. amandiana · D. purpurea subsp. bocquetii · D. purpurea subsp. carpetana · D. purpurea subsp. mariana · D. purpurea subsp. mauretanica · D. purpurea subsp. nevadensis · D. purpurea subsp. toletana · D. purpurea var. alba (Purple Foxglove) · D. purpurea var. perennis · D. purpurea var. purpurea (Purple Foxglove) · D. purpurea var. tomentosa · D. purpurea × thapsi · D. purpureo-lutea · D. regalis · D. roxburghii · D. sceptrum · D. schischkinii · D. sibirica (Siberian Foxglove) · D. sinensis · D. spaniflora · D. speciosa · D. stewartii (Foxglove) · D. stricta · D. subalpina · D. thapsi (Dwarf Spanish Foxglove) · D. thapsi 'Spanish Peaks' · D. thaspi · D. thpasi · D. tomentosa · D. transiens · D. trojana (Foxglove) · D. trojana 'Helen of Troy' (Foxglove) · D. ujhelyii · D. urmangi · D. Vesuvius hybrids · D. viridiflora (Green Foxglove) · D. viridiflora 'Moss Green' · D. winterli · D. × fucata · D. × fucata 'Aurora' · D. × fulva · D. x mertonensis (Strawberry Foxglove) · D. × mertonensis 'Raspberry' · D. × mertonensis 'Summer King' · D. xmertonensis

Footnotes

1. "Digitalis". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 53. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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