Purple foxglove is a medicinal plant of Western Europe with dark green or white-wooly leaves arranged in a basal rosette. For the first year, the plant develops its roots and stays in the basal rosette. In the second year, foxglove sends up one or more flowering stalks that can reach up to 1.5 m in height. The flowers are tubular, shaped like the fingers of a glove, about 5 cm long. Flowers are on one side of the spike only, and in most forms, they droop downward. They bloom in late spring and early summer, usually for about four weeks.
