Digitalis purpurea L.

Spice Flowers In the field

Family: SCROPHULARIACEAE

Genus: Digitalis

Catalan common name: Boca de llop. Didalera. Didalera de Sant Jeroni. Digital purpúria.

Spanish common name: Campanitas. Dedalera.

Province distribution: Barcelona. Girona. Lleida.

General distribution (Phytogeography): Eurosiberian (Atlantic)

Uses and properties: Medicinal.

Flowering time: JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Life-forms: Hemicryptophyte.

Habitats: Fir forest and beech forest. Pinus sylvestris forest. Quercus robur oak wood.

Characteristics: Open and cool places, normally moist forest clearings and outlying areas. A perennial plant, more or less downy and can attain a height of some 2m. The leaves are ovate-lanceolate downy, thick and dentate, greyish on the reverse and reticulate-wrinkly on the face. The flowers are disposed in a unilateral bract raceme the corolla is tubular, in the form of a thimble and has a variable number of spots on the interior. The fruit is an ovoid capsule, dehiscent by septae.