" Verbascum thapsus"
Great mullein, Aaron's rod

 

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June - September. Flowers in inflorescences spikelike, yellow till 3 cm, with 5 stamens with the filament of the three superiors ones covered of white hair.
 
 
Regularly, every 2 or 3 days in summmer. Don't soak the soil.
 
 
Garden corners, for their abundant summer flowers, its wide leaves covered with whitish hairiness and like a medicinal plant. The flowers contain a yellow coloring that was used in the antiquity.
  
 
Sun. It tolerades shade.
  
   
From seeds in spring or division in winter. It is accustomed to self-reproduce very easily.
  
 
Poor, sandy land.
  

Another species of " Verbascum "

 

 

Verbascum blattaria ---------------- Moth mullein

Verbascum barnadesii --------------- ...............

Verbascum bombyciferum --------------- .............

Verbascum Chaixii ------------------ ...............

Verbascum creticum --------------- ...............

Verbascum densiflorum ------------- ...............

Verbascum dumulosum --------------------- ...................

Verbascum especiosum --------------- ...............

Verbascum hybrida ------------------- .................

Verbascum longifolium --------------- ...............

Verbascum lychnitis ------------------- White mullein

Verbascum nigrum ------------------ Black blataria

Verbascum phlomoides ---------------- Orange mullein

Verbascum phoeniceum --------------- Purple blataria

Verbascum pulverulentum ------------------- Hoary mullein

Verbascum sinuatum ------------------ ......................

Verbascum undulatum --------------- ...............

Verbascum virgatum ----------------- Twiggy mullein

 

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