Digitalis purpurea Linnaeus 1753 (Family Plantaginaceae)


Plant

Leaf

Flower

Fruit

Colour Variant

Height: 30-200cm
Occasionally Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Biennial
Hermaphrodite, Flowering June - September (Earliest: 25.5)

Habitat:
Spruce Forest Edge
Pollination:
Bombus barbutellus

Bombus lucorum

Episyrphus balteatus

Parasyrphus lineolus

Phaonia angelicae

Stenurella melanura
Parasites:
Septoria digitalis
Herbivores:
Melitaea athalia

Noctua pronuba Larva
Sapivores:
Aphis armata

Aulacorthum solani

Cychramus luteus

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Foxglove


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