Verbascum longifolium

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Verbascum longifolium in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Verbascum longifolium, Ten. Biennial, 3-4 ft. high, covered with white or yellowish flocculent tomentum: lvs. numerous, densely superposed; lower 1 1/2 - 2 ft. long, narrowly ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, base narrowed to a short petiole; upper sessile, base amplexicaul, all undulate: infl. sessile, 1 ft. long, 3 1/2 in. diam., with innumerable short appressed branches: fls. golden yellow, about 1 in. across; calyx stellate-tomentose, segms. lanceolate. S. Eu. B.M. 7707. Var. pannosum, Hort.( V. pannosum, Vis. and Panc.), is more densely tomentose, the infl. is laxer and more branched and the fls. often larger. G. 31:105. Gn. 62, p. 165. Not a good variety botanically. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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