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Verbascum ovalifolium ovalifolium (orange mullein)

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Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Flower Type [2]  Hermaphrodite
Lifespan [2]  Biennial/Perennial
Pollinators [2]  Insects, Lepidoptera, Bats
Structure [4]  Herb
Usage [2]  The whole plant is used to repel mice and rats;
Height [2]  3.936 feet (1.2 m)
Light Preference [3]  Mostly Sunny
Soil Acidity [3]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [3]  Intermediate
Soil Moisture [3]  Mostly Dry
View Plants For A Future Record : Verbascum ovalifolium ovalifolium

Protected Areas

Predators

Aphis verbasci[5]
Longitarsus nigrofasciatus[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

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♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 3Ellenberg, H., Weber, H.E., Dull, R., Wirth, V., Werner, W., Paulissen, D. (1991) Zeigerwerte von Pflanzen in Mitteleuropa. Scripta Geobotanica 18, 1–248
♦ 4Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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