| Common Name: | Purple foxglove |
| Family: | Plantaginaceae |
| Genus: | Digitalis |
| Species: | purpurea |
| Classification/Rank: | Invasive |
| Method of Transportation: | |
| Habitat/Range: | • requires control at a number of ecologically sensitive sites within the Gwaii Haanas and potentially elsewhere on Haida Gwaii. • particularly invasive in the unique thermal meadows ecosystem of Hotsprings Island. • yearly mechanical control efforts have occurred over the past 10 years with slow but steady success |
• biennial herb that grows 0.5 to1.5 m tall
• stems erect, branched, densely grey-hairy, becoming glandular upward
• leaves alternate, egg-to-lance shaped, coarsely toothed, green and soft-hairy above, grey-woolly below, reduced upward; most numerous at base of the rosette
• flowers pink-purple with deeper purple spots on the inside of the lower lip; lips fringed with hairs, sparsely long-hairy in the throat
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