Digitalis purpurea L.

PLANTAGINACEAE

- Plantain family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Digitalis purpurea L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 621 (1753)
Rank: species

Images of Digitalis purpurea

Common names

U.S. name: Purple foxglove

English name: digitalis

English name: foxglove

Italian name: Digitale rossa

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Biennial

Synonyms:

Subspecies / Varieties:
1) Digitalis purpurea L. ssp. amandiana (Samp.) Hinz
2) Digitalis purpurea L. ssp. heywoodii P. Silva & M. Silva
3) Digitalis purpurea L. ssp. purpurea
4) Digitalis purpurea L. var. alba hort.
5) Digitalis purpurea L. var. amandiana (Samp.) K. Werner
6) Digitalis purpurea L. var. gloxiniiflora hort. ex L.H. Bailey
7) Digitalis purpurea L. var. tomentosa (Hoffmanns. & Link) Brot.

TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Plantaginales
Family: Plantaginaceae
Genus: Digitalis
Species:

Page counter: 1778 ( AVG: 221.78 / 290.702 )

Gallery:

Digitalis purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Merano, margini orientali del centro abitato, giardino del Castel Trauttmansdorff., BZ, Trentino Alto-Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Vienna, Hortus Botanicus Vindobonensis, Orto botanico dell'Università di Vienna., Austria, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Giuliano Campus

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C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Digitalis purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Merano, Giardini di Castel Trauttmansdorff, BZ, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Digitalis purpurea
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Digitalis purpurea
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Digitalis purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trento, Monte Bondone, Orto Botanico., TN, Trentino- Alto Adige, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Digitalis purpurea
Jacob Sturm, Johann Georg Sturm - Deutschlands Flora in Abbildungen (1796). - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Digitalis purpurea
Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Digitalis purpurea
Picture modified from Thomé, Otto Wilhelm - Lehrbuch der Botanik fur Gymnasien, Realschulen, forst- und landwirthschaftliche Lehranstalten, pharmaceutische Institute etc. sowie zum Selbstunterrichte. 2. Auflage. (1872) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Aldo De Bastiani

Digitalis purpurea
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Digitalis purpurea
Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Digitalis purpurea
Steve Hurst - USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database - Not copyrighted image

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Daniela Longo

Digitalis purpurea
Credit: Photo by Antonino Messina

Digitalis purpurea
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Modena, Orto Botanico dell'Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, MO, Emilia-Romagna, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Digitalis purpurea
Picture modified from Richard Wettstein - Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled 'GNU Free Documentation License'.

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Links:
- The New Plantfinder - Images and local names of vascular plants - Project Dryades / KeyToNature, coordinated by the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste
- Lichens - Interactive identification keys to the lichens
- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AK, CA, CO, CT, ID, MA, MD, ME, MI, MT, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY), CAN (BC, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC), FRA (SPM)

Distributional map for Digitalis purpurea L.
Map for Digitalis purpurea L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Digitalis purpurea L. ssp. heywoodii P. Silva & M. Silva [188]
2) Digitalis purpurea L. var. alba hort. [155]
3) Digitalis purpurea L. var. gloxiniiflora hort. ex L.H. Bailey [170]
4) Digitaria abyssinica (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf [2522]
5) Digitaria bakeri (Nash) Fernald [146]
6) Digitaria chinensis (Nees) A. Camus [145]
7) Digitaria cognata (Schult.) Pilg. var. arenicola (Swallen) R. Webster [166]
8) Digitaria eriantha Steud. [1472]
9) Digitaria ischaemum (Schreb.) Schreb. ex Muhl. [1700]
10) Digitaria milanjiana (Rendle) Stapf ssp. eylesiana Henrard [164]

25-Apr-2024 - Week-17