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Rusty Foxglove
Plate 1 of 6. John Sims (1749-1831) (Public domain) · via Wikimedia

Rusty Foxglove

Digitalis ferruginea

Digitalis ferruginea, the rusty foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae, native to Hungary, Romania, Turkey and the Caucasus. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant growing to 1.2 metres (3 feet 11 inches) in height, which forms a rosette of oblong dark green leaves and carries spikes of russet, tubular flowers in summer.

The Latin specific epithet ferruginea means "rusty coloured", referring to the flowers.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 335863.