Foxglove Sentence Examples

Digitalis (Foxglove) This plant actually gives us the heart medicine digitalis (Foxglove) This plant actually gives us the heart medicine digitalis, but ingested in uncontrolled quantities, it can be deadly.

It is like a very tall foxglove in shape.

Much later the healing properties of the drug digitalis, also from the foxglove plant, was extolled by doctors.

Designed by Telford in 1792, it has a very high back and is host to a rare species of fairy foxglove.

Foxglove and tormentil in flower, with lady fern, hard fern and wood horsetail making a good display in the damper areas.

In the drier areas you can find foxglove, wood sage, bluebell and other woodland species.

Some of these plants, like willow and foxglove, have been harvested by modern medicine to produce remedies like aspirin and digitalis, a medication used to treat heart ailments.

The body doesn't care about the source of chemicals broken down during digestion; a completely natural plant such as yew or foxglove can be poisonous, while a man-made aspirin, benign.

Foxglove (Digitalis Purpurea) - Wild Foxgloves seldom differ in color, but cultivated ones assume a variety of colors, including white, cream, rose, red, deep red, and other shades.

This plant runs in a border so quickly as soon to become a troublesome weed, but is fine when allowed to run wild in a rough shrubbery or copse, where it may bloom with the Foxglove.

Typically, peonies, iris, hollyhocks, pinks and foxglove are used in a cottage garden, alongside old favorites such as geraniums, petunias, marigolds, impatiens and begonias.

This Foxglove follows the style and demeanor of this region.

This Foxglove works well with scallops, crab, fish, poultry, and light fare.

Buffon remarked that the same temperature might have been expected, all other circumstances being equal, to produce the same beings in different parts of the globe, both in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Yet lawns in the United States are destitute of the common English daisy, the wild hyacinth of the woods of the United Kingdom is absent from Germany, and the foxglove from Switzerland.

They are occasionally adulterated with the leaves of Inula Conyza, ploughman's spikenard, which may be distinguished by their greater roughness, their less divided margins, and their odour when rubbed; also with the leaves of Symphytum officinale, comfrey, and of Verbascum Thapsus, great mullein, which unlike those of the foxglove have woolly upper and under surfaces.

The earliest known descriptions of the foxglove are those given by Leonhard Fuchs and Tragus about the middle of the 16th century, but its virtues were doubtless known to herbalists at a much remoter period.

Withering, who, in his Account of the Foxglove (1785), gave details of upwards of zoo cases chiefly dropsical, in which it was used.

Thus, in Veronica, the rotate corolla has one division much smaller than the rest, and in foxglove (Digitalis) there is a slightly irregular companulate corolla.

The most common of these is called atrial fibrillation, which is usually treated with digoxin, an old drug derived from the foxglove.

The Foxglove frequently blooms two years in succession; but it is always well to sow a little seed annually, and if there be any to spare, it may be scattered in woods or copses where it is desired to establish the plants.

Bob Varner of Varner Wines makes Foxglove Chardonnay.

The leaves of the foxglove, gathered from wild plants when about two-thirds of their flowers are expanded, deprived usually of the petiole and the thicker part of the midrib, and dried, constitute the drug digitalis or digitalis folia of the Pharmacopoeia.