Digitalis grandiflora
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| Digitalis grandiflora | |
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| Digitalis grandiflora at Schynige Platte | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Asterids |
| Order: | Lamiales |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Digitalis |
| Species: | D. grandiflora |
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| Digitalis grandiflora |
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Digitalis grandiflora (Big-flowered Foxglove) is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. In mountains it grows on warm, bushy slopes or areas left after logging.
It is a herbaceous plant whose flowering stem can reach a height of 70-120 cm. The yellow flowers are 3 to 4 cm long and show a netted brown marking in their interior.
As the plant contains cardenolides all parts are toxic. Its leaves contain 0.2 % glycosides of the digitoxin-type and about 0,1 % of the digoxin-type. Even so the plant is not used in the production of cardiac glycosides.
[edit] Hybrids
- Digitalis x fulva, Lindl. 1821
(Hybrid formula: Digitalis grandiflora Mill. × Digitalis purpurea L.).
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