Photo above: Paddy Berry, Wexford |
Great Mullein Very tall, dense, spikes of yellow flowers. 5 stamens, stalks white-haired. Basal leaves broad elliptical-oblong, white-woolly, tapered or short-stalked. Stem leaves decurrent (continue down stems). Round woolly stem, usually un-branched. Height: To 2m, but often less. Waste ground, quarries, roadsides, rough grassland, walls. Less frequent in N and W Ireland. |
Photographs above: Sherkin Island, Co.Cork. August 2007