Common Name: | Mullein |
Family: | Scrophulariaceae |
Genus: | Verbascum |
Species: | thapsus |
Classification/Rank: | Aggressive or Under Bio-control |
Method of Transportation: | |
Habitat/Range: | • considered a nuisance weed. • alterante host for an apple pest and sometimes controlled for that reason. • found as rare and scattered infestations across the region |
• biennial herb that grows 0.5 to1.5 m tall
• stems are erect
• basal leaves are large, egg to heart shaped, short stalked or unstalked, green, smooth above while thinly white-woolly below; stem leaves are similar, alternate, and reduced upwards
• flowers yellow, wheel shaped; inflorescence of a dense, bracted, spike-like, terminal cluster
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