Great Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) (Nox)

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Scientific name: Verbascum thapsus L.
Image: Great Mullein
Great Mullein plant

Common Name:
Great Mullein, Velvet dock

Status:
Regionally Controlled in the Goulburn Broken, North East and East Gippsland CMAs.
Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West) and West Gippsland CMAs.

Habitat:
Temperate regions growing well on dry, disturbed, well drained sites often of low fertility and high pH, in areas with more than 500 mm annual rainfall and moderate summer temperatures (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It is a weed of roadsides, railway easements, poorer pastures, and unimproved indigenous grasslands (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Great mullein invades lowland grassland and grassy woodland, riparian vegetation, and alpine and subalpine vegetation (Carr et al 1992).

Related Links
Further information on Great Mullein can be found on the DPI Website, Pest Plant Notes.

Great Mullein rosette

Great Mullein flower

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Scientific name:	Verbascum thapsus L.	Great Mullein plant
Common Name:	Great Mullein, Velvet dock
Status:	Regionally Controlled in the Goulburn Broken, North East and East Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins, Corangamite, Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West) and West Gippsland CMAs.
Habitat:	Temperate regions growing well on dry, disturbed, well drained sites often of low fertility and high pH, in areas with more than 500 mm annual rainfall and moderate summer temperatures (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It is a weed of roadsides, railway easements, poorer pastures, and unimproved indigenous grasslands (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Great mullein invades lowland grassland and grassy woodland, riparian vegetation, and alpine and subalpine vegetation (Carr et al 1992).