Verbascum lychnitis
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|image=Verbascum lychnitis (flowers) 2.jpg
|image_caption=In Russia
|genus=Verbascum
|species=lychnitis
|authority=L.
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|synonyms={{Collapsible list|{{Species list
|Veronica biebersteinii|(Besser) Hassk.
|Blattaria alba|Medik.
|Lychnitis alba|Fourr.
|Lychnitis lutea|Fourr.
|Thapsus lychnitis|(L.) Raf.
|Verbascum album|Mill.
|Verbascum biebersteinii|Besser
|Verbascum bracteatum|J.Presl & C.Presl
|Verbascum firmum|Dulac
|Verbascum leucanthemum|Dufour ex Gren. & Godr.
|Verbascum lychnitideum|St.-Lag.
|Verbascum lychnitis|f. album House
|Verbascum lychnitis|f. rochelianum Soó
|Verbascum micranthum|Moretti
|Verbascum parvoflore|Gilib.
|Verbascum pulverulentum|Salisb.
|Verbascum ramosissimum|Poir.
|Verbascum repandum|Rochel
|Verbascum rhombifolium|Stokes
|Verbascum sylvestre|Bubani
|Verbascum weldenii|F.Braun ex Moretti
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Verbascum lychnitis, the white mullein, is a flowering plant in the figwort family (Scrophulariaceae) native to Asia and Europe.{{r|powo|fna}} It has naturalized in parts of North America.{{r|nyfa|fna}} The species was first formally named by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.{{r|ipni}} Despite its common name, the flowers can be white or yellow.{{r|fnakey}}
It is a biennial {{ref|s&m}} or short-lived perennial commonly found in disturbed areas.{{r|bif}}
Verbascum lychnitis can be distinguished from other species in the genus Verbascum by the sessile and non-clasping stem leaves with upper and lower surfaces differing in color; small, flowers that are separated (not as tightly bunched together as other mulleins); and the somewhat long flower stalks. {{r|fna|fnakey}} As with other Mulleins the leaves are clothed with dendritic hairs. In V. lychnitis, the hairs are very short, less than 0.2 mm, so as to appear stellate. The lower surface is much hairier than the upper. {{ref|s&m}}{{r|p&c}}
It hybridizes with other mullein species {{r|bif}}, including V.nigrum, V.pulverentum and V.thapsus. {{r|s&m}}
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|Verbascum lychnitis RF.jpg|In Germany
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References
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{{cite web |title=Verbascum lychnitis L. |url=http://ipni.org/n/769963-1 |website=International Plant Names Index |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries, and Australian National Botanic Gardens |access-date=5 September 2021}}
{{cite web |title=Verbascum lychnitis L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:769963-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=5 September 2021}}
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Additional Bibliography
{{Commons|Verbascum lychnitis}}
{{Wikispecies|Verbascum lychnitis}}
- {{cite book |series=European Garden Flora|title=Boraginaceae to Compositae|chapter=Verbascum|isbn=978-0-521-76164-2|first1=James|last1=Cullen|editor1=James Cullen|editor2=Sabina Knees|volume=V|year=2011|edition=2|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=180}}
- {{cite book |series=Flora Europea|title=Diapensiaceae to Myoporaceae|chapter=Verbascum|isbn=978-0-521-08489-5|editor1=T.G.Tutin|editor2=V. H. Heywood|editor3=N. A. Burges|editor4=D. M. Moore|editor5=D. H. Valentine|editor6=S. M. Walters|editor7=D. A. Webb|volume=3|year=1972|edition=1|publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
- {{cite book |title=Vegetation Mitteleuropas mit den Alpen|isbn=978-3-8252-8104-5|first1=Heinz|last1=Ellenberg|first2=Christoph|last2=Leutscher|year=2010|edition=6|publisher=Ulmer Verlag UTB|page=832}}
- {{cite book |title=Flora of Cambridgeshire|first1=Alan|last1=Leslie| publisher=Royal Horticultural Society | publication-place=Peterborough, UK | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-907057-99-1}}
- {{cite book |series=Rothmaler: Exkursionsflora von Deutschland|title=Gefasspflanze: Kritischer Band|isbn=3-8274-1496-2|editor1=Prof. Dr.Eckehart J. Jaeger|editor2=Dr. Klaus Werner|volume=4|year=2005|edition=10|publisher=Spektrum Verlag|page=567}}
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Category:Flora of temperate Asia
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