Moth Mullein

Verbascum blattaria L.

Scrophulariaceae (Figwort Family)

This plant may be found with either yellow or white flowers (see below)

White Moth Mullein

▲▼ mature plants

 

▲ base of stem and stem leaves

▲▼ flowers

 

 

 Yellow Moth Mullein

▲ seedling

▲ first  year rosette

▲▼  mature, flowering plants

▲ flowers

Moth Mullein: 

·         biennial weed with small rosette of rough-textured, lanceolate leaves with lobed margins first year

·         second year produces slender flowering stalk with a raceme of white or yellow showy flowers and round seed pods

·         prefers fertile, moist, well-drained soils in pastures, roadsides, cultivated fields, non-crop areas