Digitalis lanata, Ehrh.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1972, Flora Europaea. Volume 3. Diapensiacea to Myoporaceae, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 241

11. D. lanata Ehrh. , Beitr. Naturk. 7: 152 (1792)

( D. orientalis auct. balcan., non Lam.).

Perennial or biennial 30-100 cm; stem usually solitary, often reddish-purple, glabrous or subglabrous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, glabrous or sometimes ciliate. Racemes usually very dense; axis glandular-villous or -velutinous. Bracts lanceolate. Calyx-lobes lanceolate, acute, glandular-villous, without scarious margins. Corolla 20-30 mm, white or yellowish-white with brown or violet veins; middle lobe of lower lip 8-13 mm, oblong or ovate, whitish. 2« = 56. Woods and scrub. • Balkan peninsula, S. Hungary, S. & W. Romania. Al Bu G r Hu Ju Rm Tu [Au].