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Verbascum pyramidatum

 
Verbascum pyramidatum
Large leaves, just a couple months after setting out

Family scrophulariaceae
Life cycle perennial (Z4-8)
Flowers yellow (late spring-summer)
Size 5-7'
Light sun
Cultural notes well-drained soil; drought-tolerant

Short-lived perennial native to the Caucasus, growing from a rosette of large woolly leaves and sending up branched spikes of yellow flowers with purple anthers.

This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away...

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Seed-starting details for this plant

  1. Seed from NARGS '23/'24 exchange. Baggy 70F with light (25%G, 5-8d)
  2. Same seed as above. Baggy 70F with light (22%G, 4-8d)


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