Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, Coinnle Muire
Photographs: Sherkin, Co. Cork

Great Mullein
Verbascum thapsus
Coinnle Muire
Family: Scrophulariaceae

Flowering: June-September. Biennial. Native

Very tall, dense, spikes of yellow flowers with 5 stamens and white-haired flower stalks. The large basal leaves are broadly elliptical-oblong, white-woolly and either tapered or with short stalks. Stem leaves are decurrent (continue down stems). The round woolly stem is usually un-branched. Height to 2m but is often less

Found on waste ground, roadsides and in quarries and among rough grassland but is less frequent in the north and west of Ireland.

Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, Coinnle Muire

Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, Coinnle Muire
Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, Coinnle Muire

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