Flowers. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Kosciuszko National Park, NSW

Plant. Photo: Don Wood, south coast, NSW

Common Name

Twiggy Mullein, Green Mullein

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Notes

Introduced biennial forb to 3m tall. Leaves basal and alternating up the stem. Lower leaves 8-30cm long, 30-100mm wide, flat, hairy, sticky, edges toothed and often wavy. Upper leaves smaller, stem clasping. Flowers yellow with a purple centre, with a short tube and 5 unequal lobes, borne singly or in groups of 2-6 up the stem to form an open raceme at the top of the stem.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 601

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Verbascum~virgatum