Foxglove

Digitalis x mertonensis Scrophulariaceae

Growth habit

Herbaceous

Perennation

Biennial

Location

Robison Herb Garden

Source of plant

George W. Park Seed Co. Inc., Bluestone Perennials, J.L. Hudson, Seedsman

Description

Very large, true-breeding tetraploid hybrid; flowers to2 1/4" long (DS 3). A rather coarse plant with bunchesof soft basal foliage and spikes of large foxgloveflowers of a strange tint of rosy-mauve shot withcoppery buff. Fairly perennial if it is kept on themove, dividing it after it flowers. Plants 2' tall, 1'wide, summer blooming (DS 100).

USDA Hardiness Zone

5

Special characteristics

flower color