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Digitalis purpurea - Flowers close-up - Click to enlarge!

Flowers close-up; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 5/2004 © Jörn Germer

Digitalis purpurea - Flowers side view - Click to enlarge!

Flowers side view; Mariz, Braga, Portugal; 4/2008 © Jörn Germer

Digitalis purpurea - Upper and lower surface of leaf - Click to enlarge!

Upper and lower surface of leaf; Mariz, Braga, Portugal; 4/2008 © Jörn Germer

Digitalis purpurea - Leaf insertion - Click to enlarge!

Leaf insertion; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 5/2004 © Jörn Germer

Digitalis purpurea - Stem - Click to enlarge!

Stem; Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 5/2004 © Jörn Germer

Digitalis purpurea - Habit (<i>D. purpurea</i> 'Alba') - Click to enlarge!

Habit (D. purpurea 'Alba'); Celeirós, Braga, Portugal; 5/2008 © Jörn Germer

Digitalis purpurea - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Mariz, Braga, Portugal; 4/2008 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 148
Date of entry: 17.11.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Common Foxglove, Purple Foxglove

German: Roter Fingerhut

Mandarin: 毛地黄 (mao di huang)

Portuguese: Folha-de-raposa

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Magnoliopsida (2217)

      Order: Scrophulariales (81)

        Family: Scrophulariaceae (42)(family description)

          Genus: Digitalis (4)

            Epithet: purpurea L. (7)

purpurea => purple

Characteristics

Climate: temperate

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: herb

Flower colour: purple, violet

External links

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