Foxglove Beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna on June 12, 2019.
Foxglove Beardtongue - Penstemon digitalis
Foxglove Beardtongue is part of the Snapdragon family and blooms in late-spring to early summer.
The flowers resemble fingers of a glove. Hence, the name Foxglove (foxglove is fox + glove). Glove we can understand since the latin name digitalis means "finger-like." But why fox?
Read: Etymologists at War with a Flower: Foxglove.
The name "Beardtongue" refers to the hairy tip of the sterile stamen that is visible in the corolla.
Other names for Foxglove Beardtongue: foxglove beard-tongue, talus slope penstemon, or white beardtongue.
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna on June 12, 2019.
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond on June 23, 2019.
For more information on Foxglove Beardtongue, visit Wikipedia.
Or, visit the Wisconsin State Herbarium.
Foxglove Beardtongue
Penstemon digitalis
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in in the Curtis Prairie in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin. (6/7/22)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/11/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) in UW Arboretum near Visitors Center in the female phase. Note: (6/03/21)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (6/09/21)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/13/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (6/13/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on the banks of the retaining pond. (6/15/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/15/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/16/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/17/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (6/17/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/19/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/20/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (6/20/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue in Oak Savanna. (6/22/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (6/25/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (6/29/19)
Above: Foxglove Beardtongue on banks of Retaining Pond. (7/04/19)
Above: 1919 Foxglove (Pentstemon) illustration by Mary Vaux Walcott. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist.
Above: Foxglove (Penstemon digitalis) illustration by Alice Lounsberry circa 1899.
