Latin name: Digitalis grandiflora Mill.. Family:  Scrophulariaceae
English name: yellow foxgloves ou Carillon temple bells
Own language name: Digitale à grande fleurs
Description: A bisannuel plant with an erect and unbranched stem , 30 to 120 cm high.he leaves are lanceolate, up to 25 cm long, with toothed margin. The flowers are large, in a long spike, the corolla is tubular, yellow on the outside, mottled braun on the inside.  Flowers from june to augustus,the fruit is a capsule

Distribution: 
Belgium : only in Wallonie. Mosan and ardennais districts
 

 

Habitat: lightly forest, thermophile, coupe claire, falow land.
 
 

Report about the reasons of the risk:  uprooting by collectors, deterioration in reaping of the environment

Categoria IUCN:  1, CR, critically endangered
Possible solutions:  protection of the thermophile forests and of the edges
 
 
Culinary and/or medicinal properties:   
medicinal properties : used in pharmaceutical industries.Digitalis contains cardio-tonic glucosides very effective.So it is used in cardiology.  To eat fresh plant may be deadly.
 
Appearance in the Literature and Arts:
 

 Plant detail of the flower

 Plant detail of the flower at higher magnification


Plant with  fruits