In Colorado, the moth mullein (Verbascum blattaria) is considered a noxious weed, and efforts are being made to manage that plant. This plant is different, with smooth leaves that have lobes and ...

Strategy: This biennial plant grows in disturbed areas with compact ... head and each flower has a distinct stem (unlike common mullein) and forms a round fruit. It can grow up to 8 feet tall ...

After whiling away their time in that sandy jar for 120 interminable years, only two species of plants germinated and both were mulleins — moth mullein and common mullein. That, in my humble ...

Plant expert Ali McEnhill of The Old Dairy Nursery explains. 'Mullein is the foodplant of the mullein moth caterpillar, Cucullia verbasci which causes unsightly holes in the otherwise attractive ...

"The molecular genetics work confirmed the phenotypes we saw, which is that the plants were Verbascum blattaria, or moth mullein, and one hybrid of Verbascum blattaria and Verbascum thapsus ...

This plant favors disturbed sites and is found ... Gymnetron tetrum, and the mullein moth, Cucullia verbasci. The weevil larvae feed on the seed in the seed capsule and can destroy up to 50 ...

The Norfolk Snout moth, first recorded near Norwich ... on its feed plant The caterpillar feeds on hoary mullein, a striking, metre-tall plant with yellow flowers which is known to grow in the ...