Verbascum virgatum

Erect biennial 1–2 m high, with rather dense hairs, mainly short, simple, glandular in upper parts, becoming eglandular, longer and simple or branched toward base of plant. Lower leaves obovate to elliptic, lamina 8–30 cm long, 3–10 cm wide, margins toothed, sometimes sinuate, base tapering into short petiole, upper leaves sessile and stem-clasping. Racemes usually simple, 30–80 cm long; flowers 1–6 in bract axils (sometimes on short branches); bracts 5–20 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long, longer in fruit. Sepals 5–8 mm long; corolla 3–4 cm diam., yellow with purple centre, upper lobes shortest; stamens 5, lower pair longest, 7–9 mm long, filaments densely villous, anthers all reniform, but those of lower 2 stamens obliquely inserted and decurrent along filament. Capsule globose, 5–8 mm long, glandular-hairy. Flowers Sep.–Apr.