Digitalis purpurea
common foxglove, digitale pourpre, foxglove, purple foxglove
Digitalis purpurea
AR; CA; CO; CT; ID; MA; MD; ME; MI; MT; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; UT; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY; BC; NB; NF; NS; ON; QC; Europe [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, Central America, South America, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
Subspecies 5 (1 in the flora).
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.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
- Local floras:
BC, 
CA, 
OR, 
WA - Local Web sites: CalFlora, CalPhotos,
Flora NW, 
Go Botany, 
MD Biodiversity, 
MI Flora, 
PNW Herbaria, Turner Photog. 
WildflowerSearch
iNaturalist (observations)
USDA Plants Database- LBJ Wildflower Center
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- Encyclopedia of Life
- Wikipedia
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