Digitalis grandiflora Mill.

Taxonomy: Fam. Plantaginaceae// Genus: Digitalis// Species: Digitalis grandiflora Mill. The classification is given according to the Euro+Med PlanBase (source: Marhold, 2011+).

Determined according to the botanical keys provided in Flora Europaea Vol. 3 (Tutin et al., 1972).

Lifeform: Perrenial; Hemicryptophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Distribution: Native from France to Southeast Europe, North Caucasus and West Siberia according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat: Edges and clearings of oak and European beech forests.

Flowering period: Late spring – summer: MAY, JUN, JUL.

References:

Digitalis grandiflora. Marhold, K. (2011+): Digitalis. – In: Euro+Med Plantbase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published on the Internet https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/2ea7e4d8-038e-4c3a-8318-b938ab561e40 [Accessed 28.06.2022].

Digitalis grandiflora Mill. Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.  https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60453625-2 [Accessed 28.06.2022].

Tutin, T.G., Heywood, V.H., Burges, N.A., Moore, D.M., Valentine, D.H., Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (1972). Flora Europaea. Volume 3: Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Last update: 03.07.2022.