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Digitalis ferruginea 'Gigantea Gelbar Herold'

Gelbar Herold Rusty Foxglove

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Item #: 9329

Zones: 3a to 8b

Dormancy: Evergreen

Height: 60" tall

Culture: Sun

Origin: Balkans

Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


This 1990's introduction, whose translated name means "yellow harbinger", was introduced in 1990 by Jelitto Seed. Klaus Jelitto first saw these plants at the Berggarten-Hannover Botanic Garden in Germany, originally collected by their head gardener on Croatia's vowel-less KrK Island. The compact evergreen rosette is topped from June-August with giant 5' tall spikes of small yellow flowers, flecked with brown. This particular form has more yellow in the flowers than is typical in the species.