FAIRY FOXGLOVE / Erinus alpinus

A plant from central and southern Europe, occasionally naturalized in Britain. In the north of England, where it is naturalized, the local tradition is that it only grows where Roman soldiers have trodden (Vickery. 1995). One of its names there is Roman Wall Plant (Mabey. 1998), and it certainly grows in the village of Wall (near Hadrian’s Wall).