Botanical Name: Verbascum bombyciferum
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Common Name: Silver Mullein  
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  • Anatomy

  • Culture

  • Design

Plant Type

Perennial

 

Height Range

3-6'

 

Flower Color

Yellow

 

Flower Season

Summer

 

Leaf Color

Grey Green, Silver

 

Bark Color

n/a

 

Fruit Color

n/a

 

Fruit Season

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Information by: Stephanie Duer
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  • Description

  • Notes

A bold, architectural plant, Silver Mullein is a wonderful specimen plant. Plants form a large rosette of silvery-grey felted leaves in their first year, then send up tall stately spires of soft-yellow flowers through the second summer. Usually acts as a self-seeding biennial. Seedlings that appear may be easily moved while small, and in any case should be thinned to stand about two feet apart. Mulleins are most effective when used towards the back of the garden, surrounded by much lower plants. Grows 60 to 70 inches tall and 18 to 24 inches wide.