2 "wild foxgloves", need help iding. Don't know if Some years back, a friend gave me a "wild foxglove". More recently another friend has given me another "wild foxglove". Now that they are both of blooming size, I realize that I have 2 different plants & I don't know if either or both are foxgloves. Can anyone help with ID-ing them? [ #1 Photo of 1st plant, shows height 3 feet. ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden ) #2 photo of flowers. Each tube is 3/4 of an inch or so--small ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden ) #3 photo of foliage, leaves are 3 " long ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden ) #4 photo This is the 2nd "foxglove" flowers are bigger, pale yellow ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden ) #5 photo shows both plants. 2nd "foxglove" is shorter, 24" tall ( photo / image / picture from Cayuga Morning's Garden )
I don't think they are Digitalis purpurea (Common Foxglove) The flowering stem on Foxglove doesn't have leaves all the way up, they are in a clump near the ground. Penstemon forms a clump too and the flowers aren't lined up single file.
Here are a couple of shots of the wild foxgloves we get here in the UK. Normally the wild ones are either purple, pink or (sometimes) white - I haven't seen any yellow ones except in gardens. Hope this helps you make up your mind which plants you have.
Thanks guys. The second one might be digitalis grandiflora (photo #4) & maybe you guys are right, the first might be a penstemon. I googled that & some penstemons are called "wild foxgloves". I haven't found mine yet, but I'll keep looking.
Thanks Eileen, Your foxgloves look like Digitalis purpurea, the same as we have here "across the pond". I think my 2nd plant is a digitalis but I think the first might be penstemon.
Cayuga, Your photos of the flowers of #1, 2 look like foxglove, though I do not know about the plant. Are pentstemons related to foxgloves ? I thought I had some wild foxgloves here, but now I do not know what they are. The flowers are wrong on mine.
I love seeing your foxgloves. Before this I didn't realize how many different wild varieties there are of digitalis. Here is one site with a foxglove with a very similar cup and leaf. http://chiotsrun.com/2009/06/01/wild-foxglove/ check out some of the links within this one too. Thanks for getting me to search google images for this new to me find
This is a Nursery in England which has a wonderful collection of Digitalis forms. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. http://mayfieldsplants.com/garden-nursery/
Palustris & Eileen---Thank you! Those sites you sent were very helpful. I have realized that there are many many floxgloves out there. 'Digitalis purpurea' is the one most commonly grown in the US, but it is by far not the only one. I may have have 'Digitalis Glory of Roundway'. It has the same small flowers all facing in one direction. If not that, they maybe a close relative. It is supposed to be reliably perennial, which mine is and the seeds are supposed to be sterile. I will watch to see if that is the case. I think the pale yellow one is Digitalis grandiflora.
