Verbascum speciosum

Splendour mullein ( Verbascum speciosum )

The superb mullein ( Verbascum speciosum ) is a plant of the genus mullein ( Verbascum ).

Description

The splendor Mullein is a stately, two perennial herbaceous plant that plant height of 100 to 150 centimeters, even partially achieved up to 2 meters. The stem is angular. As an adaptation to drought deciduous leaf region is strikingly conical shaped, it directs the rain water to the roots. The leaves are densely hairy gray yellowish- tomentose on both sides. The upper stem leaves are rounded, auriculate striking and amplexicaul, all stem leaves have a cartilaginous hump on below its node.

The flowering time is in June, partly to July. The branched, racemose total inflorescence is composed of many aged men part inflorescences. The flowers have a diameter 18 to 30 mm. The yellow petals and five stamens are all occupied with yellowish- whitish hairs ( trichomes ).

As with all mullein hybrids are not uncommon.

Occurrence

The splendor Mullein is found in Europe in Central and especially in Southeast Europe. In German-speaking superb Mullein is native only to Austria, where they can be very rare in disturbed grasslands to oak forest edges, on downy oak forest clearings and railway and vineyard slopes in the hill and uplands ( hill country) find. It occurs exclusively in the Pannonian area. The deposits extend to the states of North Burgenland, Vienna, Lower Austria and Upper Austria maybe. In these populations, it is likely to be partly to feral culture relics from former special crops for the production of walking sticks. The superb mullein applicable in Austria as endangered.

In Germany Verbascum speciosum as (possibly unstable ) neophyte rare in northwest Bavaria, North Rhine -Westphalia, Hesse, southern Saxony -Anhalt and Lower Saxony as well as in Ludwig Lust ( Mecklenburg- Vorpommern ) and Hamburg to be found.

Stem leaves with cartilaginous hump below its node.

Inflorescence.

One-year rosettes.