| Scientific Name: | Verbascum thapsus |
| Common Name: | mullein |
| Family Name: | Scrophulariaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Biennial, Invasive plant |
| Mature Size: | 1.3 - 2.0m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Medicinal plant, Perennial border |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Rocky or gravelly or dry, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Succulent, Heavily veined, Pubescent, Oblanceolate, Obovate, Crenate |
| Flowers: | Spike, Yellow, Jul-Aug |
| Fruit: | Capsule, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves oblanceolate, margins round-toothed to entire, up to 45cm long, in basal rosette; florets yellow, up to 3cm wide, in spike-like inflorescence up to 50cm long. . | |