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Digitalis lutea

Digitalis lutea

9.8
A wildflower from Europe with small yellow flowers shaped like tubes
  • noun
  • Specialized
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  • Digitalis lutea is known for its striking yellow flowers that bloom in the wild during summer.

Examples

  • Digitalis lutea blooms attract bees and butterflies throughout the summer months.

  • The garden features a rare specimen of Digitalis lutea among many other wildflowers.

  • Many herbalists study Digitalis lutea for its medicinal properties and distinctive appearance.

  • The Digitalis lutea blooms beautifully in the spring.

  • Have you seen the Digitalis lutea in the garden?

  • In our botanical garden, we have a lovely patch of Digitalis lutea among the native plants.

  • The tall stalks of Digitalis lutea sway gently in the breeze, attracting various pollinators.

Synonyms

foxglove
vsDigitalis lutea
6 8.2

A tall plant with bell-shaped purple flowers that are poisonous

is a species with yellow tubular flowers rather than clustered purplish ones
Digitalis
vsDigitalis lutea
  • Specialized
1 8.6

A tall plant with bell-shaped flowers on long spikes like a foxglove

is a specific European wildflower species with yellow tubular flowers

Surface Forms

Digitalis lutea singular
Digitalis luteas plural

Morphology

Digitalis + lutea

This is a standard botanical binomial: the genus 'Digitalis' (foxglove) combined with the epithet 'lutea' (Latin for 'yellow'), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer 'yellow Digitalis' — a yellow foxglove. Scientific names are compositional across languages, so the species meaning is directly derivable from the parts.

Etymology

Digitalis lutea comes from Latin: Digitalis comes from 'digitus' meaning 'finger' because the tube-shaped flowers look like small fingers or gloves, and lutea means 'yellow'. So the name simply describes the plant we know today: a yellow wildflower with tube-shaped blooms.