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§1 Plant

Verbascum thapsus L.

vernacular common mullein — species · Scrophulariaceae


USDA
VETH
GBIF
3171949
Rank
species
common mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
Platephotograph · Craig Evans source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Biennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Scrophulariaceae Juss.
Genus
Verbascum
§2a

Native status, by region

  • AK Alaska Introduced
  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • HI Hawaii Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 1,428 counties across 36 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 1428 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 1,428 counties across 36 states/territories.

Alabama view state ↗ 7 I
Arizona view state ↗ 9 I
Arkansas view state ↗ 62 I
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I
District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Florida view state ↗ 15 I
Georgia view state ↗ 21 I
Illinois view state ↗ 102 I
Indiana view state ↗ 65 I
Iowa view state ↗ 23 I
Kansas view state ↗ 75 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 63 I
Louisiana view state ↗ 41 I
Maine view state ↗ 14 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I
Michigan view state ↗ 70 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 51 I
Mississippi view state ↗ 29 I
Missouri view state ↗ 114 I
Montana view state ↗ 37 I
Nebraska view state ↗ 25 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 10 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 18 I
New York view state ↗ 30 I
North Carolina view state ↗ 73 I
North Dakota view state ↗ 7 I
Ohio view state ↗ 88 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 58 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 3 I
South Carolina view state ↗ 32 I
South Dakota view state ↗ 8 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 43 I
Vermont view state ↗ 10 I
Virginia view state ↗ 95 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 45 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 69 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/VETH ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3171949 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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