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Posted: Jul/10/2008 11:32 AM PST
Anyone know what this is, many of you do I am sure. Appears along highway roadsides and the like. Popped up in my front yard and I have spared it and allowed it to grow without weeding it out, and though it has that weedy appearance, the huge furry leaves have grown on me. Its the second year to exist, so i know its not an annual. Is it a biennial or true perennial - should I expect it to keep coming back? Anybody out there grow this thing in your gardens as a single or in groupings? Thanks Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/10/2008 11:40 AM PST
Common Mullien (also spelled Mullein) Latin: Verbascum thapsus Wife love these but don't let them go to seed. |
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Posted: Jul/10/2008 2:31 PM PST
Awesome plant! I would've left it too  I don't think it looks weedy... |
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Posted: Jul/10/2008 6:11 PM PST
Thanks all, I found this link http://www.nps.gov/plants/ALIEN/fact/veth1.htm that tells you all you want to know about this plant. So indeed it is a biennial and considered invasive especially with its effective seeding. |
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Posted: Jul/10/2008 6:54 PM PST
I thought I remembered seeing it classified as an invasive alien (sounds like something from Hollywood LOL), I believe I mentioned that in the other post about large yellow flowering plants  . Still, a pretty plant when kept under control!
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Posted: Jul/11/2008 7:00 PM PST
I had one growing out by the curb this year, and of course passers by who invariably stop to chat when I'm working in the front were curious to know what it was called. I know the vulgar name "mullein" and I also know an even more vulgar name, referring to the phallic characteristic of the central flowerstalk. It's a something plant that starts with a "p" and ends with "ecker". I regret that someone was apparently so offended by what I deemed a harmless and humorous reference to a part of the human anatomy that just as it was reaching its prime, I found the plant poisoned, in a matter of days reduced to brown dust. Did you know that today was the 254th birthday of Dr. Thomas Bowdler? |
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Posted: Jul/11/2008 8:21 PM PST
The nerve of someone to poison your plant!! |
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Posted: Jul/12/2008 10:42 AM PST
I was just about to ask what that was. I saw it all over the place up where we were staying by the Shenandoah mountains. It looked to me like a cross between Lambs Ears (with the fuzzy soft leaves) and foxglove or snapdragons (with the tall spike of flowers) Attachments:  |
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Posted: Jul/12/2008 10:55 AM PST
Be sure not to tell your neighbors about the woodpeckers. |
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Posted: Jul/12/2008 4:09 PM PST
Oh my, Evonne. ROFL! |
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