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 Foxglove v. State (1/3/97) ap-1512
Foxglove chased after them at high speed, drove in circles around the group, and then "dusted" them รพ that is, he intentionally made high-speed passes at the villagers, steering his snow machine within a few feet of them, so that they were covered with the plume of snow thrown up by the speeding vehicle.
Foxglove argues that his earlier act of injuring the twelve- year-old boy should be treated, for sentencing purposes, as simply another injury resulting from his drunken driving on the morning of January 1, 1993.
Foxglove essentially argues that, if such a driver decides to leave his injured victim behind and continue to drive drunk, then this first assault should merge for sentencing purposes with the punishment the driver receives for later killing or injuring someone else.
www.touchngo.com /ap/html/ap-1512.htm   (1673 words)

  
 FOXGLOVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove is the common name for plants of the Digitalis species, primarily represented by common foxglove, Digitalis purpurea L., and Grecian foxglove, Digitalis lanata J.
The reported life zone for common foxglove is 6 to 21 degrees centigrade with an annual precipitation of 0.3 to 2.1 meters and a soil pH of 4.5 to 8.3 (4.1-31).
The primary value of foxglove, however, is as a source of the medicinally important glycosides found in the plant.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/med-aro/factsheets/FOXGLOVE.html   (453 words)

  
 Foxglove
To Norwegians foxglove was Revbielde, or "fox bell", from the legend that bad fairies gave the plant to the fox so he could quiet his footsteps with the blossoms while hunting around chicken roosts.
Foxglove contains the glycoside digitoxin, which scientists have isolated and now use as a medication, called digitalis, for congestive heart failure and congenital heart defects.
Foxglove was used by the ancient Britons to cure wounds.
www.herbs2000.com /herbs/herbs_foxglove.htm   (689 words)

  
 botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Foxglove - Herb Profile and Information
The Foxglove is a favourite flower of the honey-bee, and is entirely developed by the visits of this insect.
The Foxglove was employed by the old herbalists for various purposes in medicine, most of them wholly without reference to those valuable properties which render it useful as a remedy in the hands of modern physicians.
Foxglove leaves have in some places been recklessly gathered by over-zealous and thoughtless collectors without due regard to the future supply of the plants.
www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/f/foxglo30.html   (3122 words)

  
 FOXGLOVE - LoveToKnow Article on FOXGLOVE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The common or purple foxglove, Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), one-third nat.
Many varieties of the common foxglove have been raised by cultivation, with flowers varying in color from white to deep rose and purple; in the variety gloxinioides the flowers are almost regular, suggesting those of the cultivated gloxinia.
The foxglove, probably from folks-glove, that is fairies glove, is known by a great variety of poptilar names in Britain.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FOXGLOVE.htm   (426 words)

  
 Foxglove (Digitalis)
Rusty foxglove with its rusty-red flowers is the tallest, growing to about 6 feet, while the little yellow foxglove grows to only two or three feet.
Foxglove is grown commercially as a source of the heart drugs digoxin and digitoxin.
Merton foxglove (Digitalis X mertonensis), also known as the strawberry foxglove, is a perennial that grows about 3 feet tall, and has large, deep red flowers.
www.gardenguides.com /flowers/perennials/digitalis.htm   (608 words)

  
 Foxglove, Non-native Plants of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a showy biennial weed common in mid-elevation meadows and streams of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
Foxglove is a biennial; it produces a healthy rosette of oblong leaves its first year.
The highly distinctive foxglove flowers are borne along the upper part of a single, soaring stem (not visible here).
www.nps.gov /seki/snrm/nnp/html/baddipu.htm   (391 words)

  
 Foxglove Pug -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Foxglove Pug (Eupithecia pulchellata) is a (Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae) moth of the family (Measuring worms) Geometridae.
The (The immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose) larva is quite variable but is normally yellowish-green with purplish markings.
Soon after hatching it seals the mouth of the flower with silk and feeds on the reproductive parts of the flower.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/foxglove_pug.htm   (313 words)

  
 Foxglove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove is a bienneial plant with soft, hairy, toothed, ovate and lance-shaped leaves in a basal rosette.
Foxglove belongs to the Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) and the whole plant is toxic.
Historically, Foxglove was employed by herbalists for a variety of purposes, fom an ointment used for cleansing wounds and reducing swelling to boiling it and using it as an expectorant.
www.ansci.cornell.edu /plants/digitalis.html   (485 words)

  
 Floridata: Digitalis purpurea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove is a short lived perennial with dark green or white-wooly leaves that are 5-10" long and mostly arranged in a basal rosette.
Foxglove is very variable throughout its natural range, and several subspecies, varieties and forms have been named.
Foxglove often will naturalize in a partly shaded or woodland setting, but it has never been considered invasive or a nuisance.
floridata.com /ref/D/digi_pur.cfm   (618 words)

  
 Foxglove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is an attractive biennial plant that is cultivated in Canada and is naturalized in several provinces.
Foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a naturalized herb found in eastern Canada and British Columbia.
Digitoxin is one of several cardiac glycosides found in foxglove and is considered the most toxic of these chemicals.
www.holoweb.com /cannon/foxglove2.htm   (282 words)

  
 Gardening-Foxglove-Plants,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxgloves are not perennials, but biennials, and, like other biennial flowers, they die in their second year.
If you never have had foxgloves in your garden, now is a good time to get plants started for a show next year, and for years to come.
Strawberry foxglove is notable not only for its summer-long show of strawberry blossoms, but also for its attractive, lush green foliage.
www.cp.org /english/online/full/family/040630/U063020AU.html   (403 words)

  
 Authority in the Workplace: Striking a Delicate Balance -- Foxglove Essence - "Recover Authority"
Whole Energy Essences' Foxglove essence is made not from the showy, big, biennial foxglove typically found in cottage gardens in candy colors.
Foxglove essence (Whole Energy Essences) reaffirms our sense of inner authority so we don't have to either be too timid or overly aggressive to try to make that very point.
Foxglove is the embodiment of this kind of power.
www.essences.com /vibration/nov01/foxglove.html   (786 words)

  
 Gardener's Network - Flowers : How to Grow Foxglove Annual and Perennial Flowers
Foxgloves have spikes of distinctive, freckle-throated bells stud the flower stems and provide a graceful, stately look in a partly shady garden.
Foxglove blooms during early summer in various shades of shell pink, rose, cream and white, with contrasting freckles.
Foxglove will do well in average soils and in cool weather.
www.gardenersnet.com /flower/foxglove.htm   (300 words)

  
 Thomas Kinkade - Foxglove Cottage - Christ-Centered Art
I hurried to shelter but instead stumbled on the rustic stone cottage with its weathered wood slat fence that is the subject of this print.
I was intrigued by the birds flocking on its roof, the effects of the misty morning light, and in my mind envisioned graceful foxgloves growing abundantly around it.
Foxglove Cottage copyright © 1999 by Thomas Kinkade.
www.christcenteredmall.com /stores/art/kinkade/foxglove-cottage.htm   (227 words)

  
 Foxglove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxgloves tend to grow on woody slopes where foxes" burrows are often found.
Foxglove plants wer imported to America in the eighteenth century too, after their medicinal properties had been discovered, and they naturalized somewhat, but they do not fill the woods as they do in Britain.
Foxglove was known to hocal healers like George Eliot's character Silas Marner, who gave an old woman foxglove tead "since the doctor did her not good," with miraculous results.
www.westol.com /~pennwest/flowers/foxglove.html   (155 words)

  
 A Foxglove for Every Garden
Foxgloves (Digitalis) hold a special place of honor in all gardens, but especially cottage gardens.
Foxgloves seed themselves about in an apparently indiscriminately random melee and thus bring a fresh sense of serendipity to the garden each year.
Most foxgloves are biennials, meaning they seed down after blooming with the resulting seedlings becoming the next generation of blooming sized plants the following year.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cottage_gardening/15729   (596 words)

  
 Foxglove - Poisonous Plant Information
Accidental ingestion of foxglove has occurred when the leaves were used in tea or when flowers were ingested (Cooper and Johnson 1984).
General symptoms of foxglove poisoning for all types of animals include diarrhea, abdominal pain, irregular pulse, tremors, and convulsions.
The presence of digitoxin in the body tissues confirms foxglove poisoning in animals (Cooper and Johnson 1984, Joubert 1989).
www.cookiebabyinc.com /poisonousplants/foxglove.html   (816 words)

  
 Foxglove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If you have decided you would like a shady part of your garden enhanced by plants that are tall, stately, colourful and striking in their appearance, then perhaps it is time to take a closer look at some of the more recent varieties of foxgloves.
Among the species, the most interesting are those with extremely subtle flowers, although they don't always attain such lofty heights as their brightly coloured relatives.
Foxgloves are also grown commercially for the production of the heart drug, digitalin, although a synthetic form of the drug is now available.
www.arcadian-archives.com /foxglove.htm   (344 words)

  
 Foxglove Seeds from Alchemy Works - Seeds for Magick Herbs and Pagan Gardens
The flower essence of the yellow foxglove is used for connecting to and releasing terror.
Called "ciliata" because of the very fine hairs covering the stalks and even the butter-yellow flowers, this wild-type foxglove is a native of the Caucasus, where it likes to grow along the edges of pine forests It is wonderfully dainty, fitting well in cottage gardens.
Although the flowers of this foxglove are typically a pinkish purple, they can also be white or pink.
www.alchemy-works.com /digitalis.html   (1230 words)

  
 What is Foxglove?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove flourishes with disturbance, persisting afterwards if there is moderate shade.
In the Redwood National and State Parks, foxglove can be seen growing along road corridors, in alder forest, and in shady margins of the Bald Hills prairies.
Foxglove's particularly showy ornamental appearance distracts from appreciation of the natural landscapes and native flora that inspired establishing the redwood parks.
www.nps.gov /redw/foxglove.htm   (255 words)

  
 Chinese Foxglove - Rehmannia glutinosa - Encapsulated Botanical - Herbs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In Chinese medicine, Chinese Foxglove is considered a protector of the liver and as a healer of ailments due to yin deficiency.
Chinese studies have also shown that Chinese Foxglove is effective in treating hepatitis, and, in conjunction with Licorice Root, as effective in reducing the effects of rheumatoid arthritis.
Chinese Foxglove has also been found to be effective in reducing cramps, in the reduction of urinary tract problems, and in regulating menstrual flow.
www.viable-herbal.com /singles/herbs/s462.htm   (886 words)

  
 Foxglove - Gloxiniaflora Mixture
The Foxglove Gloxiniiflora, 'Digitalis purpurea 'Gloxiniiflora', is a dramatic bloomer for your shade garden and it makes a stunning cut flower.
Foxglove begins blooming in spring and blooms for 6 to 8 weeks.
The Foxglove requires a slightly acidic, sandy, well drained soil with quite a bit of organic material.
www.naturehills.com /new/product/Seeds_product_page.aspx?proid=1614   (179 words)

  
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Foxglove's tend to be medium sized plants with many containing poisons, with basal leaves in rosettes giving rise to tall leafy spikes of flowers in mid to late summer.
All the Foxgloves are ornamental and look good in the garden or naturalized in a field or damp meadows or along wood edges.
Leaves are mid green and lance shaped growing to 5 inches long, hairless on their undersides and sometimes white woolly on the veins and having toothed margins.
www.hardyplants.com /dig.htm   (3583 words)

  
 Smooth Yellow False Foxglove (Aureolaria flava)
Smooth yellow false foxglove is recognized by a very smooth stem that is often tinted with purple.
Fern-leaved false foxglove (Aureolaria pedicularia) has leaves that are much more deeply cut -- they look lacy or ferny.
All three false foxgloves always grow near oaks, and they are partially parasitic on the oaks.
www.ct-botanical-society.org /galleries/aureolariaflav.html   (120 words)

  
 Hocking Hills Retreat, Lodge, Country Inn, Farmhouse: Fox Glove Retreat, Ohio
FOXGLOVE COTTAGE, Lakeside, now open, sleeps 2 - 4, with dock, fireplace, hot tub, and beautiful view of Lake Logan.
The NEW FOXGLOVE RETREAT is the former well known Spencer House Bed and Breakfast and Retreat.
Stress will fade as you approach FOXGLOVE LODGE Driving down the winding lane, you'll be thrilled to see your cedar sided vacation home, perfectly placed among acres of tall woods.
www.foxglovelodge.com   (631 words)

  
 * Foxglove - (Plants): Definition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Foxglove (Digitalis Purpurea) - Wild Foxgloves seldom differ in color, but cultivated ones assume a variety of colors, including white, cream, rose, red, deep red, and other shades...
Foxglove blooms in midsummer and adds elegance to a perennial border, woodland area, or shade garden...
An evergreen climber which climbs with tendrils at the ends of the leaf stalks, the large lilac pink flowers are prettily veined foxglove shaped and borne in summer.
www.bestknows.com /plants/foxglove.html   (609 words)

  
 Foxglove   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
—Originally introduced into this country from Europe as an ornamental garden plant, foxglove may now be found wild in a few localities in parts of Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia, having escaped from cultivation and assumed the character of a weed.
—During the first year of its growth the foxglove produces only a dense rosette of leaves, but in the second season it produces a tall, leafy flowering stalk from 3 to 4 feet high.
The leaves, which are from 4 to 12 inches long and about twice as wide, are wrinkled, downy, and show a thick network of prominent veins.
newcrop.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/herbhunters/foxglove.html   (194 words)

  
 Digitalis purpurea
When grown from seed, this biennial foxglove produces only a basal rosette of light green, oblong leaves in the first year.
Flowers are borne in the second year in terminal, one-sided racemes atop leafy, 2-4' tall (infrequently to 5') spires arising from the centers of the basal rosettes.
After flowering, plants can become somewhat scraggly by late summer, and, because they are biennials, consideration may be given to removing them from the garden as soon as they release their seed.
www.mobot.org /gardeninghelp/plantfinder/Plant.asp?code=C530   (305 words)

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