What plant is this?

[Hover Fly]

D. purpurea "Alba"?

http://www.hairypotplants.co.uk/digitalis-purpurea-alba-473-p.asp

 

[Speicher]

We figured on Foxglove but they usually have long lines, or bundles, of flowers and these have a leaf under each flower. Arch was wondering if it was a uncultivated or wild variety.

Spikes (or racemes) is the word you might be looking for. I have lots of foxgloves in my garden, of a variety of colours. Your picture shows the same sort of flower and leaf shape as my foxgloves.

 

[Speicher]

but obviously a foreigner

A foreigner, you mean like the much larger Gants de Loup.

 

[Monsieur Remings]

I'm sure it must be some variation of digitalis, namely because the leaves look like digitalis leaves. The flowers themselves and their position along the stem marks them, along with their colour, different from the common variety as others have mentioned.

 

[Night Train]

D. purpurea "Alba"?

http://www.hairypotplants.co.uk/digitalis-purpurea-alba-473-p.asp

The flowers on those are also clustered together like the usual foxgloves. Dad's ones have individual flowers spaced apart a bit each with a large leaf under it.

It could be a real oddball in the foxglove family.

I have warned Dad to be careful with it.

 

[TonyEnjoyD]

It's a giant beanstalk...you been trying to take any cows to market recently?

 

[Hover Fly]

Foxgloves vary according to the growing conditions. If they are on bad soil their main aim in life is to flower and set seed so the flowers are close together with small leaves, in better soil, which I presume your father's garden is, they have the luxury of growing higher with bigger leaves.