Verbascum sinuatumL.

wavyleaf mullein

WFO wfo-0000418899 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Elizabete Marchante
fig. a Elizabete Marchante, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-29 / obs. 201598338
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Yamil J.R
fig. b Yamil J.R, CC0 1.0 / obs. 199758655
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. c Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198323327
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. d Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 197465591
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. e Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198315702
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Tim Johnson
fig. f Tim Johnson, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197524800
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Yves Bas
fig. g Yves Bas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203150393
Verbascum sinuatum, photographed by Davide Puddu
fig. h Davide Puddu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 185709526

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Native range 32 botanical countries

Regions where Verbascum sinuatum is native: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Afghanistan, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Albania, Baleares, Bulgaria, Corse, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine AlgeriaEgyptLibyaMoroccoTunisiaAfghanistanCyprusEast Aegean Is.IranIraqLebanon-SyriaPalestineSinaiTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanAlbaniaBulgariaCorseFranceGreeceItalyKritiKrymNW. Balkan Pen.PortugalSiciliaSpainTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine BalearesSardegna
Native distribution of Verbascum sinuatum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Baleares BAL
Bulgaria BUL
Corse COR
France FRA
Greece GRC
Italy ITA
Kriti KRI
Krym KRY
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Portugal POR
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Cyprus CYP
East Aegean Is. EAI
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Palestine PAL
Sinai SIN
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Egypt EGY
Libya LBY
Morocco MOR
Tunisia TUN

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 527 in flower of 944 examined

Peak flowering in Jun. Each bar is the share of Verbascum sinuatum observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 527 of 944 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 18 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.

  • Celsia sinuata (L.) Colla
  • Lychnitis sinuata (L.) Fourr.
  • Thapsus sinuatum (L.) Raf.
  • Verbascum adenosepalum (Murb.) Karyagin
  • Verbascum arnaizii Sennen
  • Verbascum ceccarinianum Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Verbascum graecum Pall. ex M.Bieb.
  • Verbascum gussonei Tineo
  • Verbascum rotundatum Jahand. & Maire
  • Verbascum saltense Post
  • Verbascum scabrum C.Presl
  • Verbascum sinuatum f. albiflorum Greuter, Matthäs & Risse
  • Verbascum sinuatum var. arnaizii Sennen
  • Verbascum sinuatum var. pallidiflorum Pau
  • Verbascum sinuatum var. subalatum Rouy
  • Verbascum sinuatum var. subulatum Rouy
  • Verbascum tetuanense Pau
  • Verbascum undulatum M.Bieb.

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.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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