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Digitalis purpurea is an herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant. The leaves are spirally arranged, simple, 10–35 cm (3.9–13.8 in) long and 5–12 cm (2–5 in) broad, and are covered with gray-white pubescent and glandular hairs, imparting a woolly texture.
Hendrik Goltzius, A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, National Gallery of Art, NGA 94900 The generic epithet Digitalis is from the Latin digitus (finger). [9] Leonhart Fuchs first invented the name for this plant in his 1542 book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Notable comments on the history of plants), based upon the German vernacular name Fingerhut, [10] [11] which translates literally as ...
Digoxin (better known as Digitalis), sold under the brand name Lanoxin among others, is a medication used to treat various heart conditions. [4] Most frequently it is used for atrial fibrillation , atrial flutter , and heart failure . [ 4 ]
Drawings of Digitalis purpurea: Specialty: Emergency medicine: Symptoms: vomiting, loss of appetite, confusion, blurred vision, changes in color perception, decreased energy [1] Complications: Heart dysrhythmia [1] Causes: Excessive digoxin, plants such as foxglove [1] [2] Risk factors: Low potassium, low magnesium, high calcium [1 ...
Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove) Mother Hutton, also sometimes referred to as 'Mrs. Hutton', 'old mother Hutton' and 'the old woman from Shropshire', [1] has for many years been popularly known as the 18th-century herbalist, physician and pharmacist, from Shropshire, who discovered by experimentation that foxglove could be used to treat dropsy.
Digitalis purpurea (Common Foxglove) Jonathan Stokes (c. 1755 – 30 April 1831) was an English physician and botanist, a member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, and an early adopter of the heart drug digitalis.
A foxglove with a peloric flower. (Digitalis purpurea 'monstrosa')A peloric foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) flowerPelorism is the term, said to be first used by Charles Darwin, for the formation of 'peloric flowers' [1] which botanically is the abnormal production of radially symmetrical (actinomorphic) flowers in a species that usually produces bilaterally symmetrical (zygomorphic) flowers. [2]
Digitalis mariana was first described as a new species by the Swiss botanist Pierre Edmond Boissier in 1841. [1] [7] Although the Flora Ibérica (2009) and the Plants of the World Online website (2017) consider it to be a valid, independent species, [4] [6] the Flora Europaea (1976) [8] and the Euro+Med Plantbase (2011) considered it to be two subspecies of Digitalis purpurea: subspecies ...