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Digitalis purpurea drawings by Franz Köhler
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Digitalis
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"Foxglove" redirects here. For other uses, see Foxglove (disambiguation).
For the pharmaceutical, see Digoxin. For the foxglove-tree, which has similar-looking blooms, see Paulownia tomentosa.
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Etymology
Brown pen and ink of a foxglove in bloom
Hendrik Goltzius, A Foxglove in Bloom, 1592, National Gallery of Art, NGA 94900
The generic epithet Digitalis is from the Latin digitus (finger).[9] Leonhart Fuchs first invented the name for this plant in his 1542 book De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (Notable comments on the history of plants), based upon the German vernacular name Fingerhut,[10][11] which translates literally as 'finger hat', but actually means 'thimble'.

The name is recorded in Old English as 'foxes glofe/glofa' or 'fox's glove'.[12] Over time, folk myths obscured the literal origins of the name, insinuating that foxes wore the flowers on their paws to silence their movements as they stealthily hunted their prey. The woody hillsides where the foxes made their dens were often covered with the toxic flowers. Some of the more menacing names, such as "witch's glove", reference the toxicity of the plant.[11]

Henry Fox Talbot (1847) proposed 'folks' glove', where 'folk' means fairy. Similarly, R. C. A. Prior (1863) suggested an etymology of 'foxes-glew', meaning 'fairy music'. However, neither of these suggestions account for the Old English form foxes glofa.[12] 

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