 Best Sellers Purple Foxglove, Foxglove, Common Foxglove Digitalis purpurea Detailed Listing For Botanical Name: Digitalis purpurea Common Name: Purple Foxglove, Foxglove, Common Foxglove Seeds Per Pound: 4,460,000 Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 250 Germination Test Type:  Actual Collection Locale: Oregon
Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5 In Stock: 0.96 lb Prices Items are priced on a curve, you can buy any 'bulk quantity' up to what we have in stock, some examples are: 1 packet (~ 250 seeds) $2.95 2 gram (~ 19665 seeds) $8.58 10 gram (~ 98326 seeds) $20.00 1 oz (~ 278750 seeds) $39.95 4 oz (~ 1115000 seeds) $119.85 8 oz (~ 2230000 seeds) $219.72 | | | Growing Info, follow in order: Scarification: none required. Stratification: none required. Germination: surface sow and keep moist, tamp the soil. Cover to keep light out. Remove cover after germination. | In a Nutshell: * Digitalis purpurea is an herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 10–35 cm long and 5–12 cm broad, and are covered with gray-white pubescent and glandular hairs, imparting a woolly texture. The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year. * The plant is popular as a garden subject, and numerous cultivars have been developed with a range of colours from white through pink to purple. Cultivated forms often show flowers completely surrounding the central spike, in contrast to the wild form, where the flowers only appear on one side. D. purpurea is easily grown from seed or purchased as potted plants in the spring. more... * The much-loved foxglove of cottage gardens, flowers usually purple, but may be white, pink, or some variation, usually speckled in the throat, biennial, forming a basal rosette one year, flower stalk the next, likes part shade, moist (not wet) soil, leaves are poisonous, native to Europe
Noxious weed in California. * The foxglove is a widely used herbal medicine with a recognised stimulatory effect upon the heart. It is also used in allopathic medicine in the treatment of heart complaints. It has a profound tonic effect upon a diseased heart, enabling the heart to beat more slowly, powerfully and regularly without requiring more oxygen. * Great care should be exercised in the use of this plant, the therapeutic dose is very close to the lethal dose. more... |
[ edit ] Description Digitalis purpurea is an herbaceous biennial or short lived perennial plant. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 10-35 cm long and 5-12 cm broad, and are covered with gray-white pubescent and glandular hairs. The foliage forms a tight rosette at ground level in the first year.The flowering stem develops in the second year, typically 1 to 2 m tall, sometimes longer. The flowers are arranged in a showy, terminal, elongated cluster, and each flower is tubular and pendent. The flowers are typically purple but some plants, especially those under cultivation, may be pink, rose, yellow, or white. The corolla is spotted inside the bottom of the tube. The flowering period is early summer, sometimes with additional flower stems developing later in the season.The fruit is a capsule which splits open at maturity to release the numerous tiny (0.1-0.2 mm) seeds . Physical Characteristics  Digitalis purpurea is a BIENNIAL growing to 1.2 m (4ft) by 0.6 m (2ft in). It is not frost tender. It is in flower from Jun to September, and the seeds ripen from Aug to October. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees.It is noted for attracting wildlife. The plant prefers light (sandy), medium (loamy) and heavy (clay) soils.The plant prefers acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils..It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires dry or moist soil. |
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