Verbascum gnaphalodes
(Caucasus Mullein)
Family - Scrophulariaceae
Category - Biennial
Origin - Caucasus
Season of Interest - Summer, Autumn
Height - 2m or more
Location - The House Border
Description: Biennial with a columnar habit and woolly, grey-green, oblong leaves. The plant forms an Evergreen basal rosette of foliage in its first year. In the second year, the plant will produce tall stems bearing spikes of gentle lemon yellow, saucer-shaped flowers from midsummer into autumn. Rare in cultivation.
Flower:
Gentle lemon yellow, saucer-shaped flowers are held in spikes and are produced from June into September.
Flower colour: Yellow
Flower shape: Saucer-shaped flowers in spikes
Flowering time: June, July, August, September
Foliage:
Oblong leaves are grey-green and woolly. Leaves are produced in Evergreen basal rosettes in the first year. In the second year, leaves are produced all along the tall stems and stop just below the flower spike.
Foliage Senescence: Evergreen
Foliage Shape: Oblong
Propagation:
Seed.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun in well drained soil.