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Moth Mullein
Verbascum blattaria
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Cauline leaves glabrous, crenulate to dentate-serrate, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
Flowers yellow or white; the 5 fertile stamens w woolly purple filaments, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
Hairs of the calyx & upper stem simple & glandular; pedicels longer than calyx, per Weakley's Flora.
The terminal raceme is long and loose with a single flower at each node, per Wildflowers of Tennessee.
Wand Mullein, Twiggy Mullein, Moth Mullein
Verbascum virgatum
Look for it in sandhills, sandy disturbed areas, roadsides
Leaves may be hairy or may not [vs. leaves of V. blattaria glabrous], per www.CalFlora.net.
Cauline leaves are lanceolate, crenate and sessile, per www.CalFlora.net.
If you see multiple flowers [fruit] per node, it is virgatum not blattaria, per www.CalFlora.net.
Glandular hairs dense on the leaves and on the stems, per Weakley's Flora (2015).
Pedicels 1-3mm long, shorter than the calyx [vs. V. blattaria longer], per Weakley's Flora (2015).
The fuzzy stamens resemble a moth's antennae, hence one common name, per Wildflowers of the Carolina Lowcountry.
Woolly Mullein, Common Mullein, Flannel-plant, Velvet-plant
Verbascum thapsus ssp. thapsus
Look for it in fields, roadsides, disturbed areas
Leaves densely woolly hairy, in a basal rosette & alternate spiral on stem, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.
Inflorescence dense and spike-like (at least initially), per Weakley's Flora.
Leaves sessile, decurrent down the stem to the next leaf, per Weakley's Flora.
Corolla yellow and 5-lobed, 15-25mm wide, within woolly 5-lobed sepals, per Forest Plants of the Southeast and Their Wildlife Uses.