Digitalis purpurea 'Sutton's Apricot'

Common name: common foxglove

Type:: Herbaceous perennial
USDA hardiness zones:: 4-8

When grown from seed, this biennial foxglove cultivar produces only a basal rosette of medium green, oblong leaves in the first year. Flowers are borne in terminal racemes (to 2') in the second year atop leafy, 3-4' tall spires arising from the centers of the basal rosettes. Pale apricot-orange flowers are pendulous, 2-3\ long, tubular and funnel-shaped, and are closely grouped along each spike. Flowers are attractive to hummingbirds. Plant leaves are a source of the drug digitalis and are highly poisonous. Individual flowers resemble the snipped off fingers of a glove, hence the common name of foxglove."

Full sun to part shade
Medium
Low

Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers moist, organically rich, acidic soils in part shade. Soil must not be allowed to dry out. Performs as a biennial and can be grown from seed sown directly in the garden in spring after last frost (for flowers the following year) May self-seed under favorable growing conditions.