Taxon: Digitalis lanata Ehrh.

• the 4 historical accession(s) associated with this name.
• Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

• digitalis   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Grecian foxglove   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• woolly digitalis   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• woolly foxglove   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• digitale laineuse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• wolliger Fingerhut   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• digital   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• grekisk fingerborgsblomma   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F BritStace)
  
• Medicines: 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 Amer 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:

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

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• American Horticultural Society. 1999. Unwanted foxglove. Amer Gardener 78:8.
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Farnsworth, N. R. & D. D. Soejarto. Global importance of medicinal plants (unpublished draft manuscript rev. 23, 1988)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. [naturalized].
• Habermehl, G. G. 1992. Poisonous plants of Europe. In: James, L. F. et al., Poisonous plants. Proceedings of the third international symposium. 77.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu). [mentions].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:96.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1972. Flora europaea. 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.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Digitalis lanata.

Check other web resources 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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