Digitalis grandiflora

Miller

Gard. Dict. ed. 8, Digitalis no. 4 [.

Common names: Yellow foxglove
Introduced
Synonyms: Digitalis ambigua Murray D. orientalis Miller
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 17. Treatment on page 258. Mentioned on page 259.

Stems 50–100 cm, pilose to villous, hairs glandular and eglandular. Leaves: blade lanceolate to oblanceolate, 10–21 × 2–4 cm, margins finely and evenly serrate distally, with a glandular tip. Inflorescences secund, glandular-pilose, bracts 20–30 mm. Pedicels pendent, 5–12 mm, glandular-pilose. Flowers: sepals narrowly lanceolate, 8–12 × 1.5–2 mm, villous; corolla-tube pale-yellow, funnelform, 25–40 mm, throat 14–20 mm diam., abaxial lip pendent, pale-yellow often marked by brown veins, broadly rounded to broadly triangular, 3–4 mm. Capsules ovoid, 8–11 mm, glandular-pilose. Seeds brown to black, prismatic, 1 mm, finely reticulate-alveolate. 2n = 56 (Europe).


Phenology: Flowering Mar–Jul.
Habitat: Disturbed sites, roadsides, old fields.
Elevation: 0–1000 m.

Distribution

Introduced; Ont., Conn., Maine, Mass., Mich., Minn., Mont., N.H., N.Y., Ohio, Vt., Wis., e Europe, w Asia, also in South America, elsewhere in Europe, elsewhere in Asia, Africa, Australia

Discussion

Plants of Digitalis grandiflora are occasionally found in cultivation and sometimes escape in the northeastern part of the flora area.

Although the names Digitalis grandiflora and D. orientalis were published at the same time, D. grandiflora has long been the preferred name for this species and has been in general use since it was published. The name D. orientalis Miller was long confused with the later homonym D. orientalis Lamarck, a synonym of D. lanata.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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broadly rounded;broadly triangular +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
Kerry A. Barringer +  and Neil A. Harriman† +
Miller +
alternate +, opposite +, whorled +, helical +  and subopposite +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (21 cm210 mm <br />0.21 m <br />) +
lanceolate;oblanceolate +
not leathery +  and not fleshy +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
campanulate +
glandular-pilose +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> (1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br />) +
Yellow foxglove +
2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
pink +  and purple or white +
globular +  and ovoid +
Ont. +, Conn. +, Maine +, Mass. +, Mich. +, Minn. +, Mont. +, N.H. +, N.Y. +, Ohio +, Vt. +, Wis. +, e Europe +, w Asia +, also in South America +, elsewhere in Europe +, elsewhere in Asia +, Africa +  and Australia +
drupe-like +
0–1000 m. +
curved +  and straight +
hairy +  and glabrous +
1 +  and 4 +
loculicidal +  and septicidal +
Disturbed sites, roadsides, old fields. +
terminal +  and axillary +
glandular-pilose +
persistent +  and deciduous +
cauline +  and basal +
smaller +
entire +  and subentire toothed or lobed +
axile +  and parietal +
basal +, apical +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, unitegmic +  and hemitropous +
campylotropous +, hemianatropous +  and anatropous +
glandular-pilose +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br />) +
5 +  and 4 +
Flowering Mar–Jul. +
Gard. Dict. ed. +
minute +
brown +  and black +
reticulate-alveolate +
prismatic +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (?) +
distinct +
lanceolate +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> (0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br />) +
Introduced +
branching +  and simple +
climbing +  and scrambling +
sprawling +, creeping +  and prostrate +
pilose +  and villous +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> (100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br />) +
punctiform +  and 2-lobed +
Digitalis ambigua +  and D. orientalis +
Digitalis grandiflora +
Digitalis +
species +
1.4 cm14 mm <br />0.014 m <br /> (2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br />) +
gibbous +  and not spurred +
perennial +  and biennial +