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

Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea L.)

Family: Scrophulariaceae

Medicinal uses: Source of digitoxin; treatment of congestive heart failure

Part used medicinally: Leaf

Native origin: Europe

Digitalis purpurea L.

Digitalis purpurea L.

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