What's in a Name?

This is the flower of the Foxglove plant. I don't remember where I got the original plant but it now grows rather unassumingly in my front garden. It has worked it's way to the very edge of the bed, right next to the street. It disappears each Winter and reappears, as if by magic, in the Spring. It is a member of the genus Digitalis and that name is also used for drug preparations that contain cardia glycosides, extracted from certain members of this genus and used in certain heart medications.  

The 'extra photo' today is of a rather unusual 'special' flower, or actually two flowers which have grown together at their centers.They are flowers of the Gaillardia plant which is often called Blanket Flower.