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Verbascum 'Ebenezer Howard'

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Description

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Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.[1]

Genus Verbascum

Herbs, annual , biennial, or perennial . Leaves usually simple , alternate, basally rosulate. Inflorescences terminal , spicate , racemose, or paniculate . Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla usually yellow, rarely purple or white; tube short; limb rotate; lobes 5, subequal , radiate . Stamens 4 or 5; filaments usually woolly ; anthers 1-loculed, confluent , anterior anthers linear-oblong or reniform , posterior anthers reniform or transverse . Ovary 2-loculed. Capsule septicidal . Seeds numerous , conically cylindric , 6-8-ribbed.

About 300 species: Asia, Europe; six species in China.[2]

Taxonomy

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Notes

A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Verbascum

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 74 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

V. acaule (Dwarf Mullein) · V. arcturus (Cretan Bears Tail) · V. atroviolaceum (Purple Mullein) · V. blattaria (Moth Mullein) · V. blattaria f. albiflorum (Moth Mullein) · V. blattaria yellow-flowered (Moth Mullein) · V. blattaria 'Pink' (Moth Mullein) · V. bombyciferum (Silver Mullein) · V. bombyciferum 'Arctic Summer' (Silver Mullein) · V. chaixii (Nettle-Leaved Mullein) · V. chaixii 'Album' (Nettle-Leaved Mullein) · V. chaixii 'Sixteen Candles' (Nettle-Leaved Mullein) · V. cretica (Cretan Mullein) · V. densiflorum (Dense Mullein) · V. dumulosum (Dwarf Mullein) · V. epixanthemum (Verbascum) · V. kerneri (Kerner's Mullein) · V. longifolium (Mullein) · V. lychnitis (White Mullein) · V. nevadense (Mullein) · V. nigrum (Black Mullein) · V. nigrum nigrum (Black Mullein) · V. nigrum 'Album' (Black Mullein) · V. olympicum (Greek Mullein) · V. phlomoides (Orange Mullein) · V. phoeniceum (Purple Mullein) · V. phoeniceum 'Flush of White' (Purple Mullein) · V. phoeniceum 'Rosetta' (Purple Mullein) · V. phoeniceum 'Violetta' (Purple Mullein) · V. phoenicium 'Violetta' (Purple Mullein) · V. pterocaulon (Mullein) · V. pulverulentum (Violetstamen Mullein) · V. pyramidatum (Mullein) · V. roripifolium (Mullein) · V. sinuatum (Wavyleaf Mullein) · V. speciosum (Hungarian Mullein) · V. spinosum (Spiny Mullein) · V. spurium (Mullein) · V. thapsus (Aarons Rod) · V. thapsus thapsus (Flannel Mullein) · V. undulatum (Wavy-Leaf Mullein) · V. virgatum (Wand Mullein) · V. wiedemannianum (Indigo Mullein) · V. x kerneri (Kerner's Mullein) · V. x phoeniceum 'Jackie' (Mullein) · V. x pterocaulon (Mullein) · V. 'Banana Custard' (Banana Custard Mullein) · V. 'Bold Queen' (Mullein) · V. 'Caribbean Crush' (Caribbean Crush Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Cherry Helen' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Cotswold Beauty' (Mullien) · V. 'Cotswold Cream' (Mullien) · V. 'Cotswold King' (Mullien) · V. 'Cotswold Queen' (Mullien) · V. 'Dark Eyes' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Gainsborough' (Mullien) · V. 'Helen Johnson' (Helen Johnson Mullein) · V. 'Jackie' (Jackie Mullein) · V. 'Jackie in Pink' (Jackie in Pink Mullein) · V. 'Jester' (Mullein 'jester') · V. 'Lavender Lass' (Mullein) · V. 'Letitia' (Letitia Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Pink Domino' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Pink Petticoats' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Plum Smokey' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Raspberry Ripple' (Mullein) · V. 'Royalty' (Mullein) · V. 'Saffron Towers' (Mullein) · V. 'Sierra Sunset' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Snow Maiden' (Mullien) · V. 'Southern Charm' (Mullein) · V. 'Spica' (Mullein) · V. 'Sugar Plum' (Ornamental Mullein) · V. 'Summer Sorbet' (Ornamental Mullein)

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Footnotes

  1. Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
  2. "Verbascum". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 4. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
Last Revised: 7/23/2012