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|accepted_name=Digitalis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 621. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Foxglove
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Plantaginaceae;Digitalis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Plantaginaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Digitalis]]</div></div>
|etymology=Latin digitalis, finger of a glove, alluding to resemblance of tubular flowers to glove fingers
|volume=Volume 17
|mention_page=page 5, 12, 14, 361
|treatment_page=page 258
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>[shrubs], biennial or perennial. <b>Stems</b> erect, simple or branching from base, glabrous, glabrate, pilose, or villous. <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline, alternate, smaller distally; petiole absent [present]; blade not fleshy, not leathery, margins entire or serrate to coarsely doubly serrate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, racemes, often secund; bracts present. <b>Pedicels</b> present; bracteoles usually absent. <b>Flowers</b> bisexual; sepals 5, distinct, narrowly triangular to lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, calyx ± bilaterally symmetric, campanulate; corolla brown, yellow, pink to purple, or white, bilaterally symmetric, ± bilabiate, funnelform, tubular-funnelform, or globular to ovoid, tube base not spurred or gibbous, lobes 5, abaxial 3, adaxial 2; stamens 4, adnate to corolla, didynamous, filaments glabrous or hairy; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular, placentation axile; stigma 2-lobed or punctiform. <b>Fruits</b> capsules, dehiscence septicidal, sometimes secondarily loculicidal. <b>Seeds</b> 20–60, brown to black, prismatic or cylindric to ovoid, wings absent. × = 28.</span><!--

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|distribution=Europe;w Asia;introduced also nearly worldwide.
|discussion=<p>Species 22 (4 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>All species of <i>Digitalis</i> are poisonous, containing cardiac glycosides including digitoxin. In addition to the following species, D. ferruginea Linnaeus is sometimes found in cultivation in North America. It has yellow to yellow-brown corollas, like <i>D. lanata</i>, but the corolla tubes are elongate, not globular.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=aronson1986a
|text=Aronson, J. K. 1986. An Account of the Foxglove and Its Medicinal Uses, 1785–1985. Oxford.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=werner1965a
|text=Werner, K. 1965. Taxonomie und Phylogenie der Gattungen Isoplexis Lindl. und Digitalis L. Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 70: 109–135.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corolla tubes globular to ovoid; leaf blade margins entire.
|[[Digitalis lanata|Digitalis lanata]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Corolla tubes funnelform or tubular-funnelform; leaf blade margins serrate or serrate at least distally.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corolla tubes 13–15 mm; throats 5–7 mm diam.
|[[Digitalis lutea|Digitalis lutea]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Corolla tubes 25–60 mm; throats 14–25 mm diam.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Corolla tubes pale yellow; leaf blade margins finely and evenly serrate distally.
|[[Digitalis grandiflora|Digitalis grandiflora]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Corolla tubes purple-pink to white; leaf blade margins coarsely serrate.
|[[Digitalis purpurea|Digitalis purpurea]]
|}
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name=Digitalis
|author=Kerry A. Barringer; Neil A. Harriman†
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Plantaginaceae
|distribution=Europe;w Asia;introduced also nearly worldwide.
|introduced=true
|reference=aronson1986a;werner1965a
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
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|genus=Digitalis
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