Foxglove
Taken at Ardmore Point on 27th June 2021 using Panasonic Lumix LX5 in macro mode.
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Taken at Glasgow Woodlands on 6th July 2024 using Panasonic Lumix TZ70 in macro mode. Fact File
Taken at Ardnave Point, Islay on 10th July 2017 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 600 mm zoom lens. Fact File
Fruit
Taken at Glenashdale on 16th August 2016 using Panasonic Lumix LX5 in macro mode.		 Fact File
Foxglove.
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AKA: 		Digitalis purpurea.
Lamiales.
Plantaginaceae.
Biennial or Perennial
Fairy Bells.
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 Woods and grassy places.
June-August .
60 - 150 cm
The name of the plant is a corruption of its Anglo-Saxon name "folk's bell" (a gliew being a type of bell). Indeed even today the flowers are called "Fairy Bells" in certain parts of the British Isles. Although the plant is poisonous it can be used to produce digitalis, a heart drug.