DIGITALISL. - FOXGLOVE
Scientific Description:
Annual to perennial herbs. Leaves simple, alternate, basal and cauline. Flowers in terminal, bracteate, often secund racemes. Calyx deeply 5-fid, shorter than corolla. Corolla exserted, usually yellowish or whitish (in Turkey), tube cylindrical or pouched or subglobose, limb obliquely ± 2-lipped, lips scarcely spreading; lower lip with middle lobe slightly or much longer than anterio-lateral lobes. Stamens 4, didynamous, included. Capsule ovoid, septicidal, beaked. Seeds many, oblong.
Reference:
Davis PH (1978). Digitalis L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 680.
Public Description:
Digitalis, commonly known as “foxglove”, is a herbaceous biennials, perennials and shrubs. They are native to western and southwestern Europe, western and central Asia, Australasia and northwestern Africa. There are approximately 25 species in the world and 8 species (10 taxa) in Türkiye. Although the foxgloves are quite poisonous plants, the cardiac glycosides contained in their contents are used in the manufacture of heart medicines. Foxgloves can be used for cut flowers, however due to the toxicity this may be inappropriate for homes with cats or children. Once the usefulness of digitalis in regulating pulse was understood, it was employed for a variety of purposes, including the treatment of epilepsy and other seizure disorders.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalis /,Accessed date: 17.09.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Horticulture/Digitalis/,Accessed date: 17.09.2016
Anonymous 3 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Plantaginaceae/Digitalis/ /,Accessed date: 17.09.2016.
Ozbek MU (2012). Digitalis L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 671–672.
