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§1 Plant

Digitalis purpurea L. ssp. purpurea

vernacular purple foxglove — subspecies · Scrophulariaceae


USDA
DIPUP2
GBIF
5708907
Rank
subspecies
purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea ssp. purpurea)
Platephotograph · z7nikonCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Genus
Digitalis
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 92 counties across 15 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 92 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 92 counties across 15 states/territories.

California view state ↗ 18 I
Colorado view state ↗ 2 I
Idaho view state ↗ 5 I
Maine view state ↗ 2 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 5 I
Michigan view state ↗ 5 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 2 I
New York view state ↗ 2 I
Ohio view state ↗ 2 I
Oregon view state ↗ 19 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 7 I
Utah view state ↗ 2 I
Vermont view state ↗ 5 I
Washington view state ↗ 13 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/DIPUP2 ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/5708907 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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