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PostPosted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 11:34 am 
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Location: North of Austin - Burnet County area

My wife and I have been trying to identify a wildflower that is growing on our property. We finally found what it was according to a site we found but were totally confused when we saw a "foxglove" in a 1 gallon pot being sold at Home Depot which really didn't look like the wildflower called "foxglove". I don't have the scientific name that was on the 1 gallon container at Home Depot but the link will show you what we have on our property. The Home Depot "foxglove" was about 2 1/2 foot tall and did not have the jaged edges like the wildflower.

http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/forbh ... glove.html

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You have a penstemmon. The foxglove sold at Home Depot is probably a digitalis. The Digitalis is the large, showy garden flower. Yours is the wildflower. They probably sell the penstemmons at Home Depot, too. :)


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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 11:07 am 
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Thanks leigh. Our foxglove is prettier than Home Depot's! :lol: I'm going to find out more info on the digitalis since it really was pretty... Thanks for the help!

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 12:23 pm 
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You're quite welcome. There are a number of colors and varieties of each-- probably at the Home Depot. Husker's Red Penstemmon was quite popular last year or the year before. 8)


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