Digitalis mariana mariana

Description

“Pet poisonous” – Toxic parts: leaves The Digitalis mariana is normally found in rockeries , taking advantage of any crack in the rocks, growing in two years; in the first after germinating it produces only a rosette of basal leaves , oval, slightly toothed and long petiole , while during the second year develops a long stem (0.5 to 2.5 m) with alternate leaves, with glandular hairs and eglandular. Leaves long petiolate, not decurrent, basal in rosette, broadly ovarian limb, crenate or slightly dentate, back with glandular and eglandular hairs, white underside and beam, densely tomentose or woolly. The flowers form a cluster inflorescence. Hermaphrodite flowers, zygomorphs; They are tubular, up to 5 cm long, with pink petals on the outside and white with some small pink spots on the inside of the corolla. Chalice pubescent-glandular or puberulent-glandular, sepals oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, the superior of smaller size. Cylindrical-campanulate corolla , glabrous on the outside, greater lower lobe. Androceo with 4 stamens . They bloom from May to the end of June, later giving rise to a capsule . The pollination is carried bees and bumble . The seeds are dispersed by the wind.