Verbascum speciosumSchrad.

showy mullein

WFO wfo-0000418942 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Patrick Hacker
fig. a Patrick Hacker, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-20 / obs. 187099349
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. b Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 140944003
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Jens-Christian Svenning
fig. c Jens-Christian Svenning, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 46603681
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Wouter Koch
fig. d Wouter Koch, CC0 1.0 / obs. 22985016
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Ilkka Tuunainen
fig. e Ilkka Tuunainen, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 144434452
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by pol parrhesia
fig. f pol parrhesia, CC0 1.0 / obs. 154593074
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Victor Heng
fig. g Victor Heng, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 139006758
Verbascum speciosum, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. h Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 91481196

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Native range 14 botanical countries

Regions where Verbascum speciosum is native: Iran, Iraq, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, Greece, Hungary, NW. Balkan Pen., Romania, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine IranIraqTranscaucasusTürkiyeAlbaniaAustriaBulgariaCzechia-SlovakiaGreeceHungaryNW. Balkan Pen.RomaniaTürkiye-in-EuropeUkraine
Native distribution of Verbascum speciosum, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Albania ALB EUROPE
Austria AUT
Bulgaria BUL
Czechia-Slovakia CZE
Greece GRC
Hungary HUN
NW. Balkan Pen. YUG
Romania ROM
Türkiye-in-Europe TUE
Ukraine UKR
Iran IRN ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iraq IRQ
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR

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.

Also published as 8 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.

  • Verbascum coeruleum Schanz
  • Verbascum hyoseridifolium Boiss.
  • Verbascum hyoserifolium Schrad.
  • Verbascum integrifolium Rochel
  • Verbascum longifolium DC.
  • Verbascum megaphlomos Boiss. & Heldr.
  • Verbascum mixtum E.Thomas
  • Verbascum neilreichii Schur

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.

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