skip navigation, jump to main contentDorothy Bradley Atkins Medicinal Plant Garden, College of Pharmacy, UIC

Foxglove, Woolly or Grecian (Digitalis lanata Ehrhart)

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Medicinal uses: Treatment of congestive heart failure; digitoxin. Caution: Toxic in overdose.

Part used medicinally: Leaf

Native origin: Eastern Europe

Digitalis lanata Ehrhart

Digitalis lanata Ehrhart

Photos: D. Doel Soejarto, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago