Foxgloves 

Digitalis, also known as Foxglove, is a genus of about 22 species of herbaceous short-lived perennials and biennials that bears tall, dramatic spikes of tubular flowers with speckled throats that vary in color including pink, red, purple, white, and yellow. Foxglove blooms in midsummer and adds elegance to a perennial border, woodland area, or shade garden.

The perennial foxglove is known as Digitalis grandiflora or Digitalis ambigua, and flowers in early summer, producing multiple spikes of butter-yellow thimble-shaped flowers with brown to purple markings in the throats. It will repeat blossom in the fall if you deadhead it as soon as the first blooms start to fade. It can be propagated by seed or careful division in spring.

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