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Taxon: Digitalis purpurea L.

Genus: Digitalis
Family: Plantaginaceae tribe: Digitalideae. Also placed in: Scrophulariaceae Veronicaceae
Nomen number: 13986
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:621. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 20-May-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 01-Dec-2006
Species priority site is: Northeast Regional PI Station (NE9).
Accessions: 3 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


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Distributional range:

Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Morocco
  • EUROPE
    Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden; United Kingdom
    Middle Europe: Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany
    Southeastern Europe: Italy - Sardinia
    Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain
Other:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk) [cultivated].
  • Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
  • Duke, J. A. 1985. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs)
  • 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) [cultivated].
  • Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu). (F Chiangsu) [cultivated].
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR) [cult.].
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
  • Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1972. Flora europaea. (F Eur) 3:240.
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin) [cultivated].
  • Zhong Guo & Hua Jing. 1993. China floral encyclopaedia. (China FlEncy)
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Check other databases for Digitalis purpurea L.:

  • 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.

Images:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images 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.

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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?13986 (21 November 2009)

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