XVerbascum blattaria - Moth MulleinX
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Moth Mullein (Verbascum blattaria), family Scrophulariaceae (Figwort)
FUN FACT: Per the website Plants For a Future, this species is a great insect repellent especially of moths and cockroaches when used indoors.
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Plant location: Photographed in a Jackson County Open Space, Colorado, on October 4, 2008. Found in every state of the U.S., except oddly enough, Wyoming. It is found in the greatest abundance on the east coast.Plant -
Bloom season: June throught October.Foliage -
Found on Oak Island - Portland/Sauvie - Oregon - July 16, 2017
Meet the variety Verbascum blattaria var. albiflorum - a white colored bloom. -
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Oak Island - Portland/Sauvie - Oregon - July 16, 2017
Var. albiflorum that we have seen are smaller of flower, and less tall than blattaria. -
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Oak Island - Portland/Sauvie - Oregon - July 16, 2017
Foliage of blattaria and var albiflorum are markedly rugose. -
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