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Noun(1) any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers

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(1) For instance, dock and beggarticks often indicate wet soil, while thistles and mullein indicate a dry soil.(2) We've got hawthorn, gingko, elder, mullein , lavender, sage, thyme, echinacea, borage, yarrow and plenty of pine trees.(3) Tall grasses and weeds - especially pokeweed, mullein and Queen Anne's lace that will produce fruits and copious seed heads - grow profusely.(4) Besides picking the more familiar lemon balm, coltsfoot and mullein , I found myself picking honeysuckle flowers for their antibacterial and antiviral properties.(5) To make the oil, cover a handful of dried mullein flowers with a carrier oil such as olive or almond oil.(6) The yellow flower spikes of a dwarf mullein or verbascum and the delicate white and pink trumpets of a creeping convolvulus defied my attempts at precise identification but were delightful nevertheless.(7) To treat a cough, make a calming tea from equal parts of licorice root, anise seed, mullein leaves and wild cherry bark.(8) I'm a great fan of verbascum or mulleins , to give them their common name, not least because they self-seed prolifically, leaving little room for weeds to flourish and filling the borders florifically.(9) Ilexes and oleanders line the roadside; tall yellow mulleins and apricot hollyhocks spring up in the screes above.(10) Pastures seem to be in pretty good shape with fair grass growth; however, I have never seen so much common mullein .
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