Digitalis obscura Green Flowering Plants Dryopteris goldieana makes a spectacular

Dryopteris goldieana makes a spectacular clump

but instead of white florets inside the purple calyces

'Golden Tiara' sports

it usually reflowers in fall

"nekkid" scapes emerge from dormancy in late summer

Digitalis obscura Green Flowering Plants Dryopteris goldieana makes a spectacularTo borrow the famed Monty Python line, "And now for something completely different." Willow leaf foxglove is a shrubby woody species from the Iberian peninsula (Spain Portugal) which looks exactly like a penstemon. Digitalis obscura had me completely fooled when I first saw it back in the early 2000s, growing in rock gardens throughout Denver, Colorado. The narrow, linear evergreen leaves, which turn purple in winter) clothe the upright woody stalks