Verbascum lychnitis L.

Stems erect, to 1.5 m, often branched above, white-tomentose; lvs oblong-oblanceolate, entire or obscurely toothed, sessile but not decurrent, softly tomentose beneath, green and glabrous or nearly so above; infl commonly freely branched, forming a large pyramidal panicle of loose interrupted racemes, the fls distinctly pedicellate, several at each node; cor yellow (white), 10–20 mm wide; filament-hairs yellow or white; 2n=32, 34. Native of Eurasia, found as an occasional weed in fields and waste places in our range, especially eastward. June–Oct.

Waste places and calcareous banks on dry soils.

Can be grown by seedlings.