Digitalis grandiflora is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae

Plantaginaceae

Plantaginaceae Juss. or plantain family, are a family of flowering plants in the order Lamiales. The type genus is Plantago L..In older classifications it used to be the only family of the order Plantaginales, but numerous phylogenetic studies, summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, have...

. In mountains it grows on warm, bushy slopes or areas left after logging.

It is a herbaceous plant whose flowering stem can reach a height of 70-120 cm. The yellow flowers are 3 to 4 cm long and show a netted brown marking in their interior.

As the plant contains cardenolide

Cardenolide

Cardenolide is a type of steroid. Many plants contain derivatives, collectively known as cardenolides, including many in the form of cardenolide glycosides...

s all parts are toxic. Its leaves contain 0.2 % glycosides of the digitoxin

Digitoxin

Digitoxin is a cardiac glycoside. It has similar structure and effects to digoxin . Unlike digoxin , it is eliminated via the liver, so could be used in patients with poor or erratic kidney function. However, it is now rarely used in current Western medical practice...

-type and about 0,1 % of the digoxin

Digoxin

Digoxin INN , also known as digitalis, is a purified cardiac glycoside and extracted from the foxglove plant, Digitalis lanata. Its corresponding aglycone is digoxigenin, and its acetyl derivative is acetyldigoxin...

-type. Even so the plant is not used in the production of cardiac glycoside

Cardiac glycoside

Cardiac glycosides are drugs used in the treatment of congestive heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia. These glycosides are found as secondary metabolites in several plants, but also in some animals, such as the milkweed butterflies. -Function:...

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Hybrids

• Digitalis x fulva
  Digitalis x fulva
  Digitalis x fulva, Lindl. 1821, common name Strawberry foxglove, is a hybrid between D. grandiflora and D. purpurea . This hybrid is considered fertile.-Description:...
  
  , Lindl. 1821

(Hybrid formula: Digitalis grandiflora

Digitalis grandiflora

Digitalis grandiflora is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae. In mountains it grows on warm, bushy slopes or areas left after logging....

Mill. × Digitalis purpurea

Digitalis purpurea

Digitalis purpurea , is a flowering plant in the family Plantaginaceae , native to most of Europe.-Description:...

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