YELLOW AND ORANGE 



1. COMMON MULLEIN: Great Mullein: Vel- 

 vet or Flannel Plant: Mullein Dock: Aaron's 

 Rod. Verbdscum Thdpsus. 



Figwort Family. June Sept. 



A plant 2-7 feet tall, found in dry fields, 

 waste places. Nova Scotia to Florida, west 

 to Minnesota and Kansas. Naturalized from 

 Europe. 

 FLOWERS Yellow, 5-parted, in dense, elongated 



spike. 



LEAVES Thick, velvety, in a rosette on the 

 ground, others clasping the plant stem. 



2. MOTH MULLEIN: Verbdscum Blattaria. 

 Figwort Family. June Sept. 



A plant 2-5 feet tall, found in dry fields, 

 waste places. Fairly common through United 

 States and Canada. Naturalized from Eu- 

 rope. 



FLOWERS Yellow, sometimes white, tinged on the 

 back with lavender, fringed in the cen- 

 ter with ruddy hairs; borne in loose 

 spike. 

 LEAVES Smooth, more or less deeply toothed. 



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