Digitalis lutea

Digitalis lutea - Yellow Foxglove - Geel vingerhoedskruid - Dedalera amarilla - Digitale jaune - Gelbe Fingerhut
English: Yellow Foxglove - Small Yellow Foxglove
Nederlands: Geel vingerhoedskruid
Español: Dedalera amarilla - Digital amarilla - Dedalera de San Jerónimo
Français: Digitale jaune - Digitale à petites fleurs - Petite Digitale
Deutsch: Gelbe Fingerhut

Family: Plantaginaceae - Plantain family
Flowering time: June-August
Height: 40-100cm
Altitude: 700-2000m
Colour: pale yellow, brown dots on the inside of the corolla
Habitat: wooded areas, rocky habitats, near streams
Distribution: native to western and central Europe
Synonym: Digitalis lutea subsp. lutea







Notes: Latin epithet ´lutea´ means ´golden´. Toxic like all members of the Digitalis family. The Yellow Foxglove is often grown in gardens, where it readily self-sows; naturalized in Great Britain. Recently naturalized in two limestone quarries in Limburg, a province in the south of the Netherlands. Northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.

Related key words: Rotterdam, Botanische tuin Kralingen, stinzenplant, Stinsenplanze, plantes castrales, Pyreneeën, Pyrenees, Pirineos, Sendero Botánico (Benasque), Peña Oroel (Jaca), La Cazcarra (Laspuña), Ventanillo (Seira), Alps