purple foxglove

noun

1. a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.

Example Sentences

After splitting with Sibs, I beelined for Belvoir Bay and followed a gentle coastal trail festooned with English bluebells and purple foxglove.

From Washington Post

The common or purple foxglove, D. purpurea, is common in dry hilly pastures and rocky places and by road-sides in various parts of Europe; it ranges in Great Britain from Cornwall and Kent to Orkney, but it does not occur in Shetland or in some of the eastern counties of England.

From Project Gutenberg

Where would be the crimson jay, where the scarlet bustard, where the gorgeous peacock with the nosegay on his tail, where the rose and the honeysuckle and the purple foxglove mingling with the wild thorn in our hedgerows, if the universe were of their creation, and this great globe but one big workshop?

From Project Gutenberg

Put two ounces of the leaves of purple foxglove, digitalis purpurea, nicely dried, and coarsely powdered, into a mixture of four ounces of rectified spirit of wine and four ounces of water; let the mixture stand by the fire-side twenty-four hours frequently shaking the bottle, and thus making a saturated tincture of digitalis; which must be poured from the sediment or passed through filtering paper.

From Project Gutenberg

There was prussic acid poisoning from almonds and digitalin poisoning from purple foxglove.

From Project Gutenberg