< Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MULLEIN, the common English name for the plant Verbascum Thapsus, natural order Scrophulariaceæ. The common mullein grows in old fields, roadsides, etc., and is a tall rough plant. The flowers are yellow, almost sessile, and are disposed in a long, cylindrical spike.
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