Foxglove
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Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove(Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whoseleaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative anddiuretic. See Digitalis.Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckledfoxgloves from their stem. W. Browne.
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a tall, thin plant with white, yellow, pink, red, or purple bell-shaped flowers growing all the way up its stem
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A tall Eurasian plant with erect spikes of flowers, typically pinkish-purple or white, shaped like the fingers of gloves. It is a source of the drug digitalis.
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