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About Verbascum thapsus (Mullein)

Verbascum thapsus - Commonly called common mullein, is a wooly biennial herb that produces a basal rosette of stalked, thick, soft, densely-hairy, flannel-textured, pale gray-green leaves (to 6-15” long), an erect, solitary, unbranched, densely hairy flowering stem rising from the center of the rosette to 7’ tall in the second year, each stem being topped in summer by a 20-inch long cylindrical inflorescence of sulphur-yellow flowers (each to 1” across); flowering stems appear winged because the smaller fuzzy alternate oval stem leaves have tapered and prolonged bases which extend down the surface of the stem, a long June-September bloom of flowers, a few at a time, with the best bloom usually appearing in July, rounded downy seed capsules (1/4” diameter) which mature in fall followed by death of the plant as the seed ripens and the bicentennial life cycle is completed. Family:  Scrophulariaceae