Photographs: Crookhaven, Co. Cork |
Twiggy Mullein Verbascum virgatum Family: Scrophulariaceae Flowering: June-August. Biennial. Introduced. Spikes of yellow flowers with purple-haired anthers, 2-5 flowers in each bract axil with 2 decurrent anthers and 3 fixed. The flower stalks are usually shorter than the calyx. Leaves are oblong-lanceolate and either unstalked or with short stalks. A glandular-hairy plant with the flower spike often branched at the base. Infrequent in Ireland, mainly found on waste ground, grassland, roadsides and in quarries. Similar: Moth Mullein, V. blattaria has one flower at each axil |
Twiggy Mullein, Verbascum virgatum