Genus of 360 biennials , and a few annuals, perennial, and sub shrubs, some are semi to fully evergreen, and are within the figwort family. \u00a0Recent cultivars are longer lived and have larger flowers. \u00a0They are found mainly on dry, stony hillsides, wasteland and in open woodland in Europe, North Africa, and Western and central Asia. \u00a0These hairy to woolly plants produce large alternate, simple, smooth edged or toothed, scalloped, lobed, soft textured basal mid to grayish green leaves, which often form large rosettes, with smaller stalk less stem leaves. Most produce one or a few tall, erect stems, that reach 12-40\u201d tall, \u00a0bearing flowers in dense spikes, but some have flowers clustered within the rosette centers. \u00a0The outward facing, saucer shaped flowers are made up of 5 symmetrical petal are most commonly yellow but there are orange, red-brown, purple, blue or white forms. \u00a0Individual flowers are short lived, but they are very numerous, and flowering takes place over a long period. \u00a0Semi evergreen species are grown as much for they\u2019re over wintering rosettes of the white woolly leaves, as for their flowers.<\/p>\n
Larger species are good for growing in large or mixed herbaceous border or gravel bed, or for naturalizing in a wild or woodland garden. \u00a0Smaller species are suitable for a rock garden.<\/p>\n
Grow in alkaline, poor, well-drained soil in full sun. \u00a0The taller species may need support. \u00a0Divide perennial in spring.<\/p>\n
Prone to powdery mildew<\/i><\/em>, and variety of fungal leaf spots<\/i><\/em>\u00a0as well as caterpillars <\/i><\/em>can affect these plants.<\/p>\n V. chaixii \u2013 Nettle \u2013 Leaved Mullein<\/b><\/strong>\u2013 This relatively long-lived clump to rosette forming semi evergreen perennial from Central, South, and Eastern Europe grows 36\u201d tall and 18\u201d wide. \u00a0It produces long stalked egg to oblong shaped gray hairy, mid green basal leaves, 2-10\u201d long, with scalloped margins and sometimes lobed toward the bases. \u00a0Stem leaves are short stalked becoming stalk less and more rounded up the stem. \u00a0In mid and late summer, saucer shaped, pale yellow flowers, to 1\u201d across, with purple stamens are borne in slender panicles to 18\u201d long.<\/p>\n Zones 5-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Verbascum \u2013 Celsia \u2013 Mullein \u2013 Genus of 360 biennials , and a few annuals, perennial, and sub shrubs, some are semi to fully evergreen, and are within the figwort family. \u00a0Recent cultivars are longer lived and have larger flowers. \u00a0They are found mainly on dry, stony hillsides, wasteland and in open woodland in Europe, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,60,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160253730"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/5140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}