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Verbascum lychnitis (white mullein)

Synonyms:

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Bee Flower Color [2]  UV-Green
Flower Color [2]  Yellow
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [3]  Biennial
Pollinators [3]  Flies, Lepidoptera, Bats
Structure [5]  Herb
Usage [3]  Flower heads are used as a mouse and rat repellent in fruit stores etc;
Height [3]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [3]  24 inches (0.6 m)
Light Preference [4]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [4]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [4]  Mostly Infertile
Soil Moisture [4]  Mostly Dry
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Protected Areas

Predators

Acherontia atropos (Death's-head hawk moth)[6]
Chamaesphecia masariformis[7]
Cucullia lychnitis[7]
Hilaphura varipes[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 5Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 6Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 7HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0