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Digitalis grandiflora Mill.

Großblütiger Fingerhut (DE), Yellow Foxglove, Yellow foxglove (EN), large yellow foxglove

Climate known 69 photographs
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Summary

Digitalis grandiflora, the yellow foxglove, big-flowered foxglove, or large yellow foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Digitalis, family Plantaginaceae. It is native to southern Europe and Asia. In mountains it grows on warm, bushy slopes or areas left after logging. The Latin specific epithet grandiflora means "large flowered".

Text from Wikipedia, “Digitalis grandiflora”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Digitalis

Digitalis is a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous perennial plants, shrubs, and biennials, commonly called foxgloves.

Text from Wikipedia, “Digitalis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Plantaginaceae
Described by
Mill.
Native to
Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia +22
Wild records
1743 in range· 1303 open

At a glance

Warmest month
21°C
Jul, mean day; nights 12 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1119mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jun 116 mm (CHELSA)
Light
6–35DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 1119 mm a year, wettest June at 116 mm, driest February at 65 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 35 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -13.6 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Digitalis ambigua Murray; Digitalis ambigua var. acutiloba Gren.; Digitalis ambigua var. calcarata Jess.; Digitalis ambigua var. grandiflora (Mill.) Wender.; Digitalis ambigua var. obtusiflora (W.D.J.Koch) Vollm. and 26 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (May to December in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (817 mm of 1119 mm) takes 8 months, May to December. Mean temperature moves 19.9 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to June.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1119 mm a year, wettest June at 116 mm, driest February at 65 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1119 mm a year at the habitat, 817 mm of it May to December. Wettest month June at 116 mm, driest February at 65 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 655 mm to 1862 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 35 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 6 to 35 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 4, the highest 90th-percentile month 42).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -13.6 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -13.6 °C, the absolute minimum -24.7 °C, about 148 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 28.9 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -7.2 °C in January (across the envelope cells -13.4 °C to -3.0 °C), warmest day 21.0 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -13.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 60 to 65% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 0 °C in Jan to 21 °C in Jul; mean night from -7 °C in Jan to 12 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1119 mm of rain a year, most in Jun. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 1250 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -24.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 28.9 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°frost28.9° 99th-percentile day (undated)-24.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter050100150200mm rainDLI 6–35RH 60–65 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 1250 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C0 / -5–32 / -4–56 / -0–910 / 4–1315 / 9–1819 / 13–2121 / 16–2421 / 16–2316 / 12–1912 / 7–145 / 0–81 / -5–4
Night °C-7 / -13–-3-6 / -13–-3-3 / -9–01 / -5–46 / -1–99 / 3–1212 / 6–1411 / 6–148 / 3–104 / -2–6-2 / -9–2-6 / -13–-2
Rain mm77 / 33–14865 / 32–12281 / 39–14479 / 41–142112 / 64–171116 / 72–181110 / 73–198106 / 68–191104 / 58–16588 / 45–17891 / 47–15990 / 44–169
DLI8 / 5–1214 / 10–1921 / 18–2830 / 27–3534 / 32–3835 / 33–4035 / 32–4230 / 28–3622 / 19–2715 / 12–199 / 6–136 / 4–10
RH %64 / 57–6962 / 57–6761 / 59–6460 / 57–6260 / 58–6361 / 58–6360 / 57–6360 / 58–6363 / 60–6564 / 60–6665 / 59–6965 / 58–70

Each figure is the median across the 1250 grid cells holding the 1723 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 903:3716 (44.825, 5.825). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -24.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -13.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 28.9 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 1250 distinct grid cells holding the 1723 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 903:3716 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 45.00_5.625, lapse-corrected +142 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 1189 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAustria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland, France, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, South European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Ukraine, Altay, West Siberia, North Caucasus· introduced: West Himalaya, Ontario, Montana, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont
Kew's description“biennial or perennial” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker45.057, 6.24 · in the densest population, 1328 records (76% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 1743 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1303 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 3 km away. 46 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 20 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 1743 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Bartosz Sarnowski, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); no rights reserved · CC0 (3).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Digitalis grandiflora, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Cellular organization of cardenolide biotransformation in Digitalis grandiflora Mill
Wolfgang Kreis, Hubert Hoelz, Renate Sutor, Ernst Reinhard (1993) · Planta
Analysis of DNA polymorphism in a relict Uralian species, large-flowered foxglove (Digitalis grandiflora Mill.), using RAPD and ISSR markers
С. В. Боронникова, З.Г. Кокаева, S. A. Gostimsky, О. П. Дрибноходова (2007) · Russian Journal of Genetics
Lugrandoside: A New Phenylpropanoid Glycoside from VariousDigitalisSpecies
Geneviève Baudouin, A.-L. Skaltsounis, François Tillequin, Michel Koch (1988) · Planta Medica
Reproductive ecology of medicinally important Kashmir Himalayan species of Digitalis L.
ROMAISA NAZIR, Zafar A. Reshi, B. A. Wafai (2008) · Plant Species Biology
Growth and biosynthetic profiles of callus and suspension cell cultures of two rare foxglove species, Digitalis grandiflora Mill. and D. ciliata Trautv.
С. В. Томилова, Д. В. Кочкин, Tatiana M. Tyurina, Elena S. Glagoleva (2022) · Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC)
Findings in the flora of Novosibirsk Region
Елена Юрьевна Зыкова, Дмитрий Николаевич Шауло (2020) · Turczaninowia
Exploration of cytomorphological diversity in the Scrophulariaceae from Kashmir Himalaya, India
Reyaz Ahmad Malik, Raghbir Chand Gupta, Santosh Kumari (2011) · Chromosome Botany

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Digitalis 1 in the reference

History & registers

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