Biennials or perennials. Stems 30–100 cm, stipitate-glandular, sometimes also sparsely puberulent. Leaves: surfaces stipitate-glandular, sometimes also sparsely puberulent; basal and proximal cauline with petiole 5–40 mm; blade ovate to elliptic-ovate, ovatelanceolate, or oblong, 5–15 × 3–7.5 (–10) cm, base subrounded to broadly cuneate; cauline not clasping, abruptly smaller distally, base not decurrent, margins crenate, sinuate, or subentire, apex of distal cauline and floral bracts long-acuminate. Inflorescences unbranched, rarely branched from proximal nodes, narrowly cylindric, flowers remote, solitary in axils at least distally; rachis stipitate-glandular, without other vestiture or sparsely puberulent; bracts ± lanceolate, 4–7 mm, base not decurrent, apex acute to acute-acuminate, stipitate-glandular, without other vestiture or sparsely puberulent. Pedicels free, 6–20 (–25) mm; bracteoles 0. Flowers: calyx 4–7 mm, stipitate-glandular, without other vestiture or sparsely puberulent, lobes elliptic; corolla purple to violet, 20–30 (–35) mm diam., pellucid glands absent; filaments villous, hairs violet; stigma capitate. Capsules ovoid, 6–8 mm, glabrous or sparsely glandular. 2n = 32, 36.

Phenology: Flowering May–Aug.
Habitat: Fields, roadsides, disturbed sites.
Elevation: 100–300 m.

Distribution

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Introduced; Ky., N.Y., Ohio, Europe, Asia

Discussion

Plants of Verbascum phoeniceum with yellow corollas, mostly from Greece, have been named subsp. flavidum (Boissier) Bornmueller.

Selected References

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Lower Taxa

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