Oklahoma City, OK (Zone 7a) | August 2004 | neutral
Flower buds covered in fine silky hairs, open to white lipped reddish-brown tubular flowers, delicately veined and netted, tightly packed...Read More on many short stems. Origin: Mediterranean. Easy to grow.
I have not grown this plant. I am a natural resources manager in Minnesota who deals largely with non-native invasive species. Digitali...Read Mores lanata (Grecian foxglove) has unfortunately naturalized in the eastern parts of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, including along highway right-of-way. Management agencies are cooperatively working to eradicate the plant before it becomes even more of a problem. If you must grow this plant, do not let it go to seed and spread outside your garden. We have more than enough invasives out there already.
A short live perennial Foxglove from Italy to Turkey.
Has deep green, hairless or slightly hairy, lance shaped leaves born...Read Moree in basal rosettes. Bears spikes of cream/yellow tubular flowers, heavily veined purple or brown with a large white lip. The flower spike has leafy bracts.
Flowers June - August
Loves a well drained soil in sun or light shade.
Very easy to grow and keep happy except where the soil lays too wet or too dry.
Flower buds covered in fine silky hairs, open to white lipped reddish-brown tubular flowers, delicately veined and netted, tightly packed...Read More
I have not grown this plant. I am a natural resources manager in Minnesota who deals largely with non-native invasive species. Digitali...Read More
A short live perennial Foxglove from Italy to Turkey.
Has deep green, hairless or slightly hairy, lance shaped leaves born...Read More