Taxon: Digitalis lanata Ehrh.

Common names:

• digital   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• digitale laineuse   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• digitalis   (Source: World Econ Pl )
  
• Grecian foxglove   (Source: Dict Gard )
  
• wolliger Fingerhut   (Source: Dict Rehm )
  
• wooly digitalis   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 )
  
• wooly foxglove   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 )
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F BritStace)
  
• Medicines: folklore; source of acetyldigoxin, deslanoside, digoxin, & lanatosides A,B,C   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Poison Pl Proc)
  
• Weed   (fide American Gardener 78(1):8. 1999)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Digitalis lanata from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary
  East Europe: Moldova; Ukraine [w.]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Romania

References:

• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). (L USSR)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. (Glea Cron) [naturalized].
• Habermehl, G. G. 1992. Poisonous plants of Europe. In: James, L. F. et al., Poisonous plants. Proceedings of the third international symposium. (Poison Pl Proc) 77.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu). (F Chiangsu) [mentions].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles. (F BritStace)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1972. Flora europaea. (F Eur) 3:241.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Digitalis lanata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Digitalis lanata. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Digitalis lanata Ehrh.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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