Digitalis ferruginea reaction. This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Digitalis ferruginea Digitalis ferruginea, the rusty foxglove, is a species of flowering plant in the genus "Digitalis" of the family Plantaginaceae. It is native to Hungary, Romania, Turkey and the Caucasus. It is a biennial or short-lived perennial plant growing to , which forms a rosette of oblong dark green leaves and carries spikes of brown, tubular flowers in summer. The Latin specific epithet "ferruginea" means “rusty coloured”, referring to the flowers. As with all species of foxglove, all parts of this plant may cause severe discomfort
Drug pollution Drug pollution Drug pollution or pharmaceutical pollution is pollution of the environment with pharmaceutical drugs and their metabolites, which reach the aquatic environment (groundwater, rivers, lakes, and oceans) through wastewater. Drug pollution is therefore mainly a form of water pollution. "Pharmaceutical pollution is now detected in waters throughout the world," said a scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. "Causes include aging infrastructure, sewage overflows and agricultural runoff. Even when wastewater makes it to sewage treatment facilities, they aren't equipped to remove pharmaceuticals." Most such pollution comes simply from the drugs having been cleared and