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Three Little Foxgloves All In Row

Lovely Foxgloves - Digitalis purpurea, a biennial flowering from June to September.

An important source of pollen for bees, foxgloves are believed to be named because of the glove finger resemblance of the flowers and it was thought that foxes wore the flowers on their paws while hunting.

In Cornwall they were often known as Flopdock, Popdock or Floppydock.

"Tiresome preachers and speakers are likened to the monotonous buzz of a bumble bee in the corolla of a foxglove and are said to "drilge like a drone in a Popdock" from F.H. Davey The Flora of Cornwall.