Verbascum virgatumStokes

Wand Mullein

WFO wfo-0000419074 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Florencia Grattarola
fig. a Florencia Grattarola, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-21 / obs. 199470148
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Lauren Gillett
fig. b Lauren Gillett, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 200627880
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Max Brujula
fig. c Max Brujula, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204634139
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Vasily Reinkymov
fig. d Vasily Reinkymov, CC0 1.0 / obs. 193259073
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Daniela Costa
fig. e Daniela Costa, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197442565
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Jenny Saito
fig. f Jenny Saito, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198026548
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Dan Horowitz
fig. g Dan Horowitz, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197931500
Verbascum virgatum, photographed by Max Mirel
fig. h Max Mirel, CC0 1.0 / obs. 192933767

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Confused withby our own model

These are not lookalikes we guessed at. Each one is a species our identification model genuinely mistook for this plant, and how many times. The error rate is published.

Flowering n = 1,122 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 1,122 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 21 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Blattaria virgata (Stokes) Fourr.
  • Celsia viscosa Wight ex Benth.
  • Verbascum annuum Mill.
  • Verbascum blattaria subsp. blattarioides (Lam.) Bonnier & Layens
  • Verbascum blattaria var. glabrum Trevir.
  • Verbascum blattarioides Lam.
  • Verbascum blattarioides var. crenatum Rouy
  • Verbascum blattarioides var. lusitanicum Schrad.
  • Verbascum blattarioides var. sublobatum Rouy
  • Verbascum celsiae Boiss.
  • Verbascum crystallostemon Schrad.
  • Verbascum glabrum Willd.
  • Verbascum glandulosum Thore ex Roem. & Schult.
  • Verbascum grandiflorum Schrad.
  • Verbascum laevigatum Schrad.
  • Verbascum lanceolatum Kit.
  • Verbascum lusitanicum Murb.
  • Verbascum virgatum subsp. lusitanicum (Schrad.) Rivas Goday
  • Verbascum virgatum var. grandiflorum Regel
  • Verbascum virgatum var. lanceolatum Mariz
  • Verbascum viscidulum Pers.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.