Digitalis purpurea L., 1753
Common names
- 🇬🇧 Foxglove
- 🇫🇷 Digitale pourpre, Gantelée, Gant de Notre-Dame
Taxonomy
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Clade: Tracheophytes
- Clade: Angiosperms
- Clade: Eudicots
- Clade: Superasterids
- Clade: Asterids
- Clade: Lamiids
- Order: Lamiales
- Family: Plantaginaceae
- Tribe: Digitalideae
- Genus: Digitalis
- Species: Digitalis purpurea
Presence
Present.
Conservation status
- Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
- Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern
Notes
The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:
- D. purpurea var. amandiana (Samp.) Cout., 1935;
- D. purpurea var. purpurea L., 1753, P.
Hybridizes with:
- D. grandiflora Mill., 1768 to produce D. × fulva Lindl., 1821, P;
- D. lutea L., 1753 to produce D. × fucata Ehrh., 1792, P.
Photographs
Sources
Chadburn, H. (2014). Digitalis purpurea (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2014. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/203383/2764797
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 886). Biotope.