Digitalis Purpurea

Jun, Jul, Aug, Mar, Apr, May

Perennials, Herb/Forb, Annual, Perennial, Poisonous, Biennial or perennial herb up to 75 (125) cm. tall, erect, shortly pubescent or lanate above, glabrescent below.

Biennial

Blooms grow on tall spikes as a 1-sided raceme with blooms closely grouped together. They are 2-3 inch long tubular flowers and come in multiple colors of white, pinks and purple with purple and white spots inside the petals. An elongate, terminal raceme, 1-2' long to sparcely branched, bracteate, with flowers subsecund, borne on one side, or borne around the rachis in some hybrids. Flowers are large, nodding, purple to pale pink or white, mauve or yellowish in some hybrids; corolla tube inflated, campanulate, 1.5-2" long, tube inside ciliate, usually heavily marked with white, edged darker purple maculation, lobes 4, upper lip shorter than lower lip.

Rounded fruit capsule which splits open at maturity to release the numerous small brown, ridged seeds., Capsule 14 x 8 mm., ovoid obtuse.