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Habitat details for Digitalis dubia?

> I just got a really cute little Digitalis dubia plant at a local nursery
> (Smith & Hawken). It seems to form a little clump, only grows to 1.5 ft
> tall, has pale pink flowers, and is totally covered with white hairs. All
> I have been able to find out about it is that it is a perennial from
> Spain and the Balaeric Islands.
> 
> Does anyone know what sort of soil, sunlight, water, etc., conditions it
> prefers?

Presumably a well drained limestone-based soil  in semishade and 
just-moist conditions would suit it, as I think it grows in wooded 
limestone ravines and similar places in the Balearic Islands (Mallorca, 
etc.), where it's endemic. I grew it once several years ago in the U.K., 
but it did not survive past flowering. Like the related D. purpurea, maybe 
it's more of a biennial than a perennial?

Nick.

Nick Turland
Flora of China Project, Missouri Botanical Garden, 
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