| Description | Silver Fox Foxglove (Digitalis pupurea ssp heywoodii) is a tall, hardy biennial with spires of white flowers and downy, silver-gray foliage. |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | (dij-i-TAL-is) |
| Plant Type | Perennials Hardy, Biennials |
| Hardiness Zone | 4-9 |
| Sunlight | full sun to partial shade |
| Moisture | average, moist |
| Soil & Site | average |
| Flowers | Bell-shaped flowers in slender, erect, usually one-sided racemes are called a secund raceme. Color ranges from white to soft pink, with darker pink speckled throats. Blooming from bottom to top along a flowering stalk. The plants I have observed were all white, but after doing searches, many pink ones occur. Forms the flowering stem in its second year |
| Fruit | Rounded fruit capsule which splits open at maturity to release the numerous small brown, ridged seeds. Each plant can produce prodigious amounts of seeds. Flowers are good pollinator attractors. |
| Leaves | The first year, it forms a rosette of lance-shaped, downy, silvery, greyish-green leaves. The next year, it will form the upright blooming plant. |
| Stems | Forms the flowering stem in its second year. |
| Dimensions | Reaches up to 3 feet by 2 feet spreads, erect upright growth form |
| Maintenance | In the second year after the flower is fading, your choice is to deadhead and clean up the plant, or let the flower remain to drop seeds to the ground and restart the biennial cycle. |
| Propagation | seeds |
| Misc Facts | Being a biennial, it forms a rosette of leaves in the first year, overwinters, and the next year it grows and forms flowers. The seeds fall to the ground and start the cycle over the next spring. Deer and rabbit tolerant. |
| Notes & Reference | #270-North Carolina Extension Gardener Tool Box (https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants), #284-University of Wisconsin-Madison (hort.extension.wisc.edu) |
Cart
