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Foxglove

Flowering Plants

Foxglove is a tall biennial or short-lived perennial plant native to Europe, recognizable by its towering spikes of tubular, speckled purple or white flowers that bloom in a single-sided row up the stem. Every part of the plant is highly toxic if ingested, containing compounds that affect the heart, yet those same compounds gave rise to digoxin, a medicine still used to treat certain heart conditions. Foxglove flowers are particularly attractive to bumblebees, which crawl deep into each tubular bloom to reach the nectar.

Facts
Classification
Diet
Photosynthetic Autotroph 1
System (Realm)
Terrestrial 2
Relationship to People
Used in Traditional Medicine 3
Living or Extinct
Yes 4
Comparison
NatureServe Rank
GNR Unranked 5
CITES Appendix
Not Listed 6
Scientific Name
Digitalis purpurea 7
Connections

Child Taxon Of

Magnoliopsida, Taxa
Source Wikidata: Foxglove

In Biome

Montane Grasslands and Shrublands, Biomes
Source Plants For A Future: Digitalis purpurea
Temperate Forest, Biomes
Source Plants For A Future: Digitalis purpurea
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Found In

Beijing

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China

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Fujian

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Guangdong

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Myanmar

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Sources
1. Digitalis purpurea (Wikipedia)
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Digitalis purpurea, the foxglove or common foxglove, is a toxic species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae, native to and widespread throughout most of temperate Europe.
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2. Plants For A Future: Digitalis purpurea
Plants For A FutureHabitats
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Acid soils in woods, heaths, mountain grasslands etc
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3. Wikipedia: Digitalis
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Foxglove has medicinal uses but is also very toxic to humans and other mammals, such that consumption can cause serious illness or death.
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4. Wikidata (taxon extant/extinct status)
Wikimedia Foundation / Wikidata contributorsQ157555, descriptionView the Source
5. NatureServe Explorer: Digitalis purpurea
NatureServe ExplorerGlobal rank (roundedGRank)
Quote, Global rank (roundedGRank)
"roundedGRank": "GNR"
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6. UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat): Species+: Lamiales
UNEP-WCMC Species+ database (CITES Secretariat)Species+ taxon_concepts, id 12396
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"cites_listing":"II/III/NC","eu_listing":"B/C/NC","higher_taxa":{"kingdom":"Plantae","phylum":null,"class":null,"order":"Lamiales","family":null},"synonyms":[],"common_names":[],"cites_listings":[]
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7. Wikidata: Foxglove
Child Taxon Of: Magnoliopsida, Wikidata parent-taxon (P171) chainView the Source
Plant (Wikipedia)
Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
Quote, Lead, whole group is photosynthetic
They are predominantly photosynthetic or came from photosynthetic ancestors, meaning that they obtain their energy from sunlight by using the green pigment chlorophyll in their chloroplasts to produce sugars from carbon dioxide and water.
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