''Digitalis'' × ''fulva'', the strawberry foxglove, is a fertile

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Digitalis grandiflora ''Digitalis grandiflora'', the yellow foxglove, big-flowered foxglove, or large yellow foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Digitalis'', family Plantaginaceae (formerly Scrophulariaceae). It is native to southern Europe a ...

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Digitalis purpurea ''Digitalis purpurea'', the foxglove or common foxglove, is a poisonous species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe. It has also naturalised in parts of North Am ...

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Description

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reaches an average a height of . The erect stems rise from a semi-

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basal rosette of soft leaves. It has typical tall spikes of large tubular flowers. The color ranges from strawberry pink (hence the common name) to mauve. The flowering period extends from late spring to early summer. It prefers neutral or mildly acidic substrate and rich, moist and regularly watered soil, in full sun or in partial shade. This plant, which is widely marketed in the UK under its synonym ''Digitalis'' × ''mertonensis'', has gained the

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Synonyms

*''Digitalis fuscescens'' Kirschl., Prodr. Fl. Alsace 103. 1836, nom. illeg. non Waldst. & Kit. (1812). *''Digitalis kotukovii'' Ivanina, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 11: 225. 1955, sine descr. lat. *''Digitalis'' × ''mertonensis'' B.H.Buxton & C.D.Darl., Nature 127: 94. 1931. *''Digitalis obtusa'' Moench, Methodus (Moench) 443. 1794. *''Digitalis purpureoides'' H.Lév., Bull. Géogr. Bot., sér. 4, 25 : 65, nom. illeg.

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