Red Foxglove Flower. The plant creates a dramatic effect with its tall spires of flowers. Common foxglove is a biennial which means they form a rosette and leaves in their first year bloom in their second year and then die.
Aug 13 2017 much the same manner as red foxglove the source of the cardiac stimulant digitalis. Blooming in the summer foxglove flower usually grows in warm or slightly hot locations. They rise above a particularly handsome lush foliage of lance-shaped rich bronze-red leaves.
However the most common varieties are pink and purple colors.
The tubular flowers attract hummingbirds. Plants Bring on the drama. Digitalis obscura is drought tolerant unlike common foxglove. Foxglove beardtongue blooms for about a month in mid-spring to early summer.