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Biennial or short-lived perennial. Basal rosette giving rise to densely hairy simple stems to c. 2.5 m high. Petiole long and winged; upper stem lvs with much shorter petioles. Lamina 10-25 × 3.5-12 cm, lanceolate to elliptic or ovate, hairy to glabrate above, ± grey-tomentulose with crisped hairs beneath, crenate or crenulate; base cuneate to attenuate. Racemes to c. 60 cm long, with many nodding fls. Bracts lanceolate, shortly glandular-hairy, decreasing in size upwards, > pedicels; pedicels tomentulose, 5-15 mm long. Calyx 8-17 mm long, shortly glandular-hairy, deeply lobed; lobes imbricate, ovate, obtuse or acute. Corolla mostly 3.5-5 cm long; tube campanulate and inflated above constricted base, usually pinkish purple with dark purple white-ringed spots in lower part, sometimes pure white, glabrous; lobes short and rounded. Stamens included. Capsule 10-15 mm long, ovoid. Seeds oblong, alveolate, truncate.
Basal leaves long petiolate; lamina lanceolate-ovate to ovate, pubescent with indumentum of mixed short glandular and multicellular eglandular white hairs, 7.5–15 x 2–6.5 cm., finely serrate to crenate-dentate, obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, coarsely reticulate-veined; petiole 8.5–14 cm. long, indumentum similar to that of lamina; stem leaves few, similar to basal but much reduced in size, continuing above with much greater reduction as sessile, entire floral bracts.
Biennial or sometimes perennial, 6–18 dm; cauline lvs lanceolate to lance-ovate, gradually tapering to the base, crenate, hairy beneath; sep 10–15 mm, overlapping, the largest broadly elliptic to obovate; cor 4–5.5 cm, narrowly campanulate, purple or white, spotted with dark purple inside; 2n=56. Native of Europe, occasionally escaped from cult. in our range. Summer. Classical source of the drug digitalis.
A herb. It can be an annual or keep growing for a few years. It grows 60-120 cm tall. It has grey-white hairs. The leaves at the base are in a ring. The leaf stalks is narrow, winged and 15 cm long. The leaves are 5-15 cm long. They taper to the base. The stem leaves get smaller up the stem. The flowers are purple-white.
Biennial or perennial herb up to 75 (125) cm. tall, erect, shortly pubescent or lanate above, glabrescent below.
Calyx 5-lobed to base, 6–18 x 3–12 mm., ovate, strongly nerved, the uppermost smaller, more acute at apex.
Corolla 4.0–4.5 cm. long, shortly 4-lobed, light purple usually crimson spotted, to rarely white.
Inflorescence 15–50 or more-flowered, simple to rarely slightly branched, flowers drooping.
Capsule 14 x 8 mm., ovoid obtuse.
Pedicels 6–18 mm. long.
Stamens included.
