Rehmannia elata N. E. Brown

Herbs, sparsely villous to villous. Stems 1. Petiole 5-6 cm, winged; leaf blade obovate-oblong to elliptic, papery, abaxially sparsely villous along veins, adaxially subglabrous, base cuneate and tapering, margin with 2-6 pairs of lobes and lobes irregularly triangular and entire or toothed, apex obtuse. Flowers including pedicel equal to or shorter than bracts. Pedicel 3-4 cm, villous. Bracteoles absent. Calyx 2-3 cm, villous; lobes 5, unequal. Corolla purple-red, ca. 6 cm; tube inflated, abaxially subsaccate; throat villous; lower lip lobes oblong to suborbicular, 6-10 X 5-10 mm; upper lip lobes transversely oblong, 0.6-1 X 0.8-1.2 cm, subequal. Filaments glabrous. Style slightly longer than stamens. Fl. Jun.

* Hubei.

elata: tall, high

Rehmannia elata, the Chinese foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the family Orobanchaceae, native to China. Growing to 150 cm (59 in) tall by 50 cm (20 in) broad, it is an herbaceous perennial with veined, hairy leaves and pink, tubular flowers with darker pink stripes in summer. The flowers bear a superficial resemblance to foxgloves, hence the common name "Chinese foxglove", which is also applied to the whole genus. However this species is not closely related to the true foxglove (Digitalis).

The plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

The specific epithet elata means "tall".