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Green Flowered Foxglove

Digitalis viridiflora

Green Flowered Foxglove
Photo: Ghislain118 (AD) http://www.fleurs-des-montagnes.net, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Plantaginaceae (Plantain family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Native range
Balkan Pen.
Climate
temperate

About

Digitalis viridiflora is a species of flowering plant commonly called green foxglove in family Plantaginaceae. It is a perennial species with greenish-yellow flowers produced on stems that grow 60 cm (23.6 in) to 80 cm (31.5 in) tall. It is native to the Balkans. It is found growing in woodlands and on heaths.

How to grow it

Green foxglove is a perennial grown in gardens for its distinctive greenish-yellow flower color and it being adaptable to partial shade; it has a dense habit and the flowering stems make long-lasting cut flowers. It is propagated by seed and by division of plants in early spring.

Where it grows

It is native to Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Thrace (Turkey), and areas within the region of the former Yugoslavia.

Other Digitalis plants

Digitalis atlantica · Canary Islands Foxglove · Digitalis cariensis · Digitalis cedretorum · Digitalis chalcantha · Digitalis ciliata · Alanya Foxglove · Rusty foxglove · Digitalis ×fulva · Yellow Foxglove · Digitalis ikarica · Cresta De Gallo

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Digitalis viridiflora by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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