Ceratotheca triloba, the wild foxglove

    Ceratotheca triloba, the wild foxglove
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Ivan Lätti

    The wild foxglove was found flowering in April in the tall grass at Mjejane. The whitish flower tubes are slightly curved, finely hairy on their outside surfaces and dark lined on the inside of the protruding lower lobe. The flowers nod on short stalks from well-spaced leaf axils.

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