#Verbascums

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Happy June! May your June bloom!

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Verbascums

Orange Daylily

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Black Mullein (Verbascum Nigrum)

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The world can't be all bad, as long as there are flowers in it.

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Plant of the Day

Thursday 3 October 2024

In the first year the biennial Verbascum thapsus (great mullein, Aaron's rod, beggar's blanket, cow's lungwort, duffle, feltwort, flannel leaf, fluffweed, rag paper, torch lily, velvet dock) produces a rosette of large wooly grey-green leaves. In the second year a tall, upright, woolly stem is produced bearing yellow, saucer-shaped flowers popular with pollinators.

Jill Raggett

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Verbascum nigrum - black mullein

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Moth Mullein..

another easy to grow (invasive) flowering plant that manages to enhance happiness..

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flower in my garden: the July edit

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Spotted a "Verbascum nevadense" on a hillside, showing off its soft, tomentose leaves. 🌿 A resilient perennial from the Figwort family (Scrophulariaceae), patiently waiting for its time to bloom. Nature's beauty, even before the flowers arrive.

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common mullein.

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Verbascum olympicum / Greek Mullein at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, CO

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Black Mullein (Verbascum Nigrum)

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Verbasco do Sul (Verbascum barnardesii)

Mértola/Portugal (23/04/2024)

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#2098 - Verbascum thapsus - Great Mullein

Another weed that I kept running into in New South Wales and in New Zealand - the last photo is from the southern end of a lake in the Southern Alps.

First scientifically described by Linnaeus in 1753, using the Latin word for the plant as the genus. Common names in English have included hig candlewick, Indian rag weed, bullicks lungwort, Adams-rod, spepherd's club, hare's-beard, poor man's blanket, feltwort, and flannel. Mullein itself derives from the French for soft.

Like the previous weeds, native to Europe, western Asia, and parts of northern Africa, but now invasive in most other parts of the world. Surprisingly, not a major weed in cropland - it doesn't tolerate shade from other plants, or tilling. Disturbed soil in sunny areas, on the other hand, is ideal.

These photos were from Tumbarumba in NSW, and Lake Pukaki in NZ.

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Thursday 10 August 2023

The biennial Verbascum thapsus has an amazing collection of common names including: Aaron's rod, ag leaf, beggar's blanket, bullock's lungwort, candlewick, clown's lungwort, common mullein, cow's lungwort, duffle, feltwort, flannel leaf, fluffweed, hare's beard, hedge taper, Jupiter's staff, king's taper, lady's candles, lady's foxglove, light of the Lord, lucernaria, mullein dock, great mullein, rag paper, shepherd's club, torch lily, torches, velvet dock, woollens, woundweed.

Jill Raggett