Moth mullein
Verbascum blattaria L.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- —
Scrophulariaceae
Also called White moth mullein, White mullein, Moth Mullein
Formerly Blattaria vulgaris, Thapsus blattaria, Verbascum blattariforme, Verbascum carduifolium, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- BiennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to N. Xinjiang and Afghanistan, NW. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- White, yellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- VERBLA, Gwyfynog
- Catalan
- Blatària
- French
- Molène blattaire, Herbe-aux-mites, Herbe aux mites
- Czech
- divizna švábovitá
- Estonian
- koi-vägihein
- Dutch
- Mottenkruid
- Finnish
- perhotulikukka
- Russian
- Коровяк тараканий
- German
- Schaben-Königskerze, Motten-Königskerze
- Lithuanian
- Plikalapė tūbė
- Japanese
- エサシソウ, モウズイカ
- Portuguese
- Cachapeiro-das-traças
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Verbascum blattaria (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.