![]() In the second year an upright flower stem with smaller leaves is produced from the center of the basal clump. The plant forms a rosette of leaves (L and C) which have prominent veins (R). The clump remains low and close to the ground. The alternate leaves, up to a foot long, are covered with gray-white hairs that impart a downy texture on the upper surface and are wooly or hairy below. The ovate to lanceolate leaves with barely noticeable rounded teeth on the margins grow on a winged petiole formed by the lower veins. This plant forms a tight rosette of simple, coarse leaves with prominent veins for a nearly quilted look in its first year. ![]() ![]() This plant, also sometimes commonly called purple foxglove, fairy gloves, fairy bells, lady’s glove, or many other things, is widely naturalized outside its native area, commonly near roads and in some places is considered a weed or invasive plant. Purple foxglove is an invasive weed in many places, including in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. Common or purple foxglove is a European biennial plant which was the source of chemicals in the drug digitalis.Ĭommon foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, is a biennial or short-lived herbaceous perennial from western Europe in the plantain family (Plantaginaceae, which now contains the former figwort family, Scrophulariaceae, this used to be part of) that grows in woodland clearings, mountainsides and especially on disturbed sites, as well as being used as a garden ornamental. ![]()
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