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Digitalis purpurea L.

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Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Digitalis purpurea L.
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Digitalis purpurea

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purpurea

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Digitalis purpurea L.

Biennial or short-lived perennial. Basal rosette giving rise to densely hairy simple stems to c. 2.5 m high. Petiole long and winged; upper stem lvs with much shorter petioles. Lamina 10-25 × 3.5-12 cm, lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, hairy to glabrate above, ± grey-tomentulose with crisped hairs beneath, crenate or crenulate; base cuneate to attenuate. Racemes to c. 60 cm long, with many nodding fls. Bracts lanceolate, shortly glandular-hairy, decreasing in size upwards, > pedicels; pedicels tomentulose, 5-15 mm long. Calyx 8-17 mm long, shortly glandular-hairy, deeply lobed; lobes imbricate, ovate, obtuse or acute. Corolla mostly 3.5-5 cm long; tube campanulate and inflated above constricted base, usually pinkish purple with dark purple white-ringed spots in lower part, sometimes pure white, glabrous; lobes short and rounded. Stamens included. Capsule 10-15 mm long, ovoid. Seeds oblong, alveolate, truncate.

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Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.
Digitalis purpurea L.

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Digitalis purpurea L.
France
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Digitalis purpurea L.
New Zealand
Westland Land District

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5f5300a5-987f-489c-8348-dadcdc5c8a8f
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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