Digitalis minorL.

WFO wfo-0000647366 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Digitalis minor, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. a Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-18 / obs. 189207010
Digitalis minor, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. b Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173326688
Digitalis minor, photographed by Hill Craddock
fig. c Hill Craddock, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 173326672
Digitalis minor, photographed by Katrin Simon
fig. d Katrin Simon, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 189206996
Digitalis minor, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. e Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155426050
Digitalis minor, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. f Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155426134
Digitalis minor, photographed by Rafael Medina
fig. g Rafael Medina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 155426086

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Digitalis minor is native: Baleares Baleares
Native distribution of Digitalis minor, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Baleares BAL EUROPE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 83 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 5.0 °C 9.8 °C 11.4 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.1 °C 26.1 °C 28.5 °C
Annual rainfall 518 mm 667 mm 984 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 35 mm 51 mm 79 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 83 research-grade observations of Digitalis minor that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Digitalis dubia J.J.Rodr.
  • Digitalis dubia f. gracilis (Font Quer) K.Werner
  • Digitalis dubia f. longipedunculata (Font Quer ex Pau) K.Werner
  • Digitalis dubia f. mollis Mart.Mart.
  • Digitalis dubia subsp. palaui Garcias Font & Marcos
  • Digitalis dubia var. albiflora Bianor
  • Digitalis dubia var. gracilis Font Quer
  • Digitalis dubia var. longipedunculata Font Quer ex Pau
  • Digitalis dubia var. marcosii Garcias Font
  • Digitalis dubia var. micrantha L.Chodat
  • Digitalis dubia var. palaui (Garcias Font & Marcos) Pericás & J.A.Ro
  • Digitalis dubia var. rodriguezii L.Chodat
  • Digitalis minor Bourg. ex Nyman
  • Digitalis minor subsp. palaui (Garcias Font & Marcos) Romo
  • Digitalis minor var. minima Lindl.
  • Digitalis purpurea f. albiflora Marcos
  • Digitalis purpurea f. dubia (J.J.Rodr.) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Digitalis purpurea f. palaui (Garcias Font & Marcos) O.Bolòs & Vigo
  • Digitalis purpurea prol. dubia (J.J.Rodr.) Font Quer
  • Digitalis purpurea subsp. dubia (J.J.Rodr.) Knoche
  • Digitalis purpurea var. gracilis Font Quer
  • Digitalis purpurea var. longipedunculata (Font Quer ex Pau) Font Quer
  • Digitalis thapsi Cambess. ex Nyman

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.