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Plant ID: mullein?

ManderMander Posts: 349
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I've got this plant hiding in a bed and I'm not sure if it's something i planted last year or a weed. Looks a bit like foxglove only fuzzy. Google lens says great mullein but the leaves don't seem pointy enough. 


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    The shape of verbascum leaves do vary a bit ... it may not be Great Mullein, but it looks like one of the mullein/verbascums to me. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited March 2022
    They don’t look like either to me.  I have a selection, and as OP says,  not pointed enough. 
    edit..... the leaf in the bottom left corner looks like Verbascum. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    edited March 2022
    Stachys byzantina ???
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Could be Punkdoc,   Do you think they are a bit too rounded for that though? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, maybe @Lyn
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    I had loads of these appearing in my garden last year - I assumed it was some kind of verbascum.  I pulled them all out as it wasn't something I wanted.  But some rosettes like yours have appeared again this year.  I might let one or two grow to see what happens.  Will report back.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • ManderMander Posts: 349
    I might just let it grow for a while and see what it is. I did have a pot that I started a packet of wildflower seeds in that didn't seem to do anything so I later reused it to start something else. Possibly it came from that. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That is really the best thing to do Mander,    Once it flowers it will be easily identified. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If it's a verbascum in its second year it'll put up a flower spike towards summer ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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