If you’ve ever seen this plant’s otherwordly stalks of tubular purple flowers, you can probably get a sense of why it’s earned a few fairy-tale nicknames, from fairy fingers and ladies’ thimble to ...

The beauty of the pink and purple carpets of digitalis flowers increasingly seen on hillsides in Japan conceals a potential menace to ecosystems and even human health. The flowers, which blossom in ...

Foxglove, a flowering plant long feared for its toxicity, became an unlikely source of a widely studied heart drug. Digoxin, a cardiac glycoside associated in modern medicine with Digitalis species ...

Foxglove plants, found in many gardens, are known for the showers of bell-shaped flowers they produce. But plants belonging to this genus, Digitalis, also harbor a less visible asset: Chemicals called ...

Fairy thimbles, fairy gloves, witches’ bells . . . whatever name you might know it by, the lofty purple flower spires of our native foxglove are one of the joys of midsummer, producing a flickering ...

Foxglove plants, found in many gardens, are known for the showers of bell-shaped flowers they produce. But plants belonging to this genus, Digitalis, also harbor a less visible asset: Chemicals called ...

The medicinal powers of aspirin, digitalis, and the anti-malarial artemisinin all come from plants. A discovery of a potent neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory chemical in a native California shrub ...

The brown-red flowers of Digitalis parviflora 'Milk Chocolate' make a beautiful and unusual addition to a border of dusky tones, and flowers from July to September in sun or shade. Buy five D.