DIGITALIS purpurea Foxglove ____________________________________ Type: Biennial Height: 3-6' (1-2m) Flowering Time: Summer Flower Colour: Pink, white, cream, yellow, apricot ____________________________________ Botanical Classification: Class: Angiospermae (Angiosperms) Subclass: Dicotyledonae (Dicotyledons) Superorder: Asteridae (Daisy Superorder) Order: Scrophulariales (Figwort Order) Family: Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family) Genus: Digitalis (Foxglove) Species: purpurea (purple) ____________________________________

Digitalis purpurea is a wildflower that has become a garden basic. It is usually a biennial, forming a rosette of large, coarse leaves in its first year, and throwing up tall spikes with large tubular flowers in its second summer. In the wild, these are almost always pink, with darker spots in the throat, but cultivated varieties are available in almost every shade of pink, through apricot and yellow, to white, with and without spotting.

This Plant is POISONOUS

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Harvesting and Growing from Seed:

	Seed Pod Each individual flower has its own seedpod up the stem. The seedpod is pointed, inside the calyx, and light brown and papery when the seeds are ripe.
	Seed The seeds are tiny light brown balls. There are many seeds in each seedpod.
	Seedling The seedling has large, slightly fuzzy spoon-shaped leaves.
Seed sowing and Germination Seeds sown on the surface of a pot of compost at any time of year by any method germinated in 4-20 days.