Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 621 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europa australiore. ♂."

Ewart, A.J. (1908), Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. VIII. The Victorian Naturalist 24(12): 193 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1917), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 25. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 29(2): 144 [secondary reference]

Raphael, T.D. (1955), Tasmanian garden escapes. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 89: 148 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 519 [secondary reference]

common name: Foxglove [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 199 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of New South Wales 3: 573 [secondary reference]

common name: Foxglove [n/a]

Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 517, Fig. 101a [secondary reference]

common name: Foxgloves [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Digitalis purpurea L. subsp. purpurea legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Digitaria purpurea subsp. purpurea in Vic.
• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 75 [secondary reference]

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