Scientific Name: Verbascum nigrum
Common Name: dark mullein
Family Name: Plantaginaceae
Origin: Europe
Hardiness Zone: Zone 3: (-40 to -34 °C)
Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial, Weed (horticultural)
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Upright
Form: Mounded, Oval - vertical
Texture: Very coarse
Landscape Uses: Accent plant, Cut flower or foliage, Fall interest, Group or mass planting, Perennial border
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Heavily veined, Pubescent, Oblong, Ovate, Crenate
Flowers: Raceme, Yellow, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Brown, Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves dark green, very rugose, margin scalloped, petiole reddish; florets bright yellow on a tall raceme.