Digitalis parviflora

Digitalis parviflora, the small-flowered foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the plantain family Plantaginaceae. It is endemic to northern and central Spain.^[2][3][4] It grows at (rarely 200-) 500–2000 metres in altitude.^[4]

Digitalis parviflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Plantaginaceae
Genus:	Digitalis
Species:	D. parviflora
Binomial name
Digitalis parviflora Jacq.[1][2]

It was first described as a species by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin in the first half of the 1770s.^[1] The Latin specific epithet parviflora means "with small flowers".^[3]

Description

Digitalis parviflora is a short-lived herbaceous perennial or biennial. It grows to 60 cm (24 in). Spires of tubular rust-red flowers rise from downy rosettes of leaves in late spring and early summer.^[5]

Uses

It is cultivated as an ornamental, preferring a semi-shaded position with damp soil. The species^[5] and the cultivar 'Milk Chocolate' ^[6] have won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[7]