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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.
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