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Foxglove

Digitalis purpurea

17,704Records since 2000
JunePeak month
126Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan203
Feb318
Mar553
Apr1,437
May2,770
Jun4,375
Jul2,322
Aug1,263
Sep852
Oct463
Nov259
Dec199

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England2,581
2Highland Scotland1,212
3Argyll and Bute Scotland932
4Powys Wales424
5Devon England359
6Cornwall England352
7Cumbria England348
8Sheffield England341
9Sefton England336
10Norfolk England265
11Herefordshire, County of England250
12North Yorkshire England244
13Essex England233
14City of Edinburgh Scotland208
15Gwynedd Wales200
11,229 England3,389 Scotland1,223 Wales111 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 126 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
17,704
Peak month
June
Counties with records
126
Scientific name
Digitalis purpurea
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,056
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Lamiales
Family
Plantaginaceae
Genus
Digitalis
Name with authority
Digitalis purpurea L.
Contributing datasets
55

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q157555 · GBIF 5414995