Just for compilation it comes under family : Plantaginaceae. On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good one. New to me like many others from Kashmir. Had never seen the > yellow variety. > Dr Phadke > > > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> *Digitalis grandiflora* Mill., Gard. Dict. ed. 8 4 corr. 1768. >> syn: *Digitalis flava* Georgi; *D. ochroleuca* Jacq.; *D. ambigua* Murray >> >> Common name: Yellow foxglove, large yellow foxglove >> >> A perennial herb growing up to 1.5 m tall with ovate lanceolate finely >> serrulate leaves and darker yellow 2.5-3.5 cm long bell-shaped flowers >> specked with brown, carried on up to 60 cm long spikes. >> >> May sometimes be confused with D. lutea the Straw foxglove, which however >> is shorter, with narrower leaves, pale yellow up to 2 cm long and narrower >> flowers with tube almost of same breadth throughout. >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> >
