Family |
Scrophulariaceae
Verbascum sinuatum
L.
Verbascum sinuatum L.
(Sp. Pl.: 178; 1753. — Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 215; 1983)
• Life-form & habit: Biennial or short-lived perennial, 50–100 cm tall, covered with a short, dense greyish or yellowish tomentum, often becoming glabrous. Stems cylindrical, often winged by decurrent leaves, usually branched from the base.
• Leaves: Basal leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, spatulate-oblong, 4–35 × 2–15 cm, incised-lobed or pinnatifid, often undulate. Cauline leaves sessile or shortly decurrent, the upper dentate or subentire, ovate-oblong to cordate-ovate, acute.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Inflorescence loose, widely branched panicle. Flowers fascicled in groups of 2–7 in the axils of broadly cordate-triangular, mucronulate bracts. Pedicels 1–4 mm; bracteoles ovate. Calyx 2–5 mm, glandular or eglandular, lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute. Corolla yellow, 15–30 mm in diameter, with translucent punctuations, tomentose outside. Stamens 5; filaments hairy with purple-violet papillae, the two upper glabrous at tip. Capsule broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 3–5 × 2–4 mm, tomentose .
• Fruit: Capsule broadly elliptic or subglobose, 3–5 × 2–4 mm, tomentose.
• Phenology: Flowers May–August .
• Habitat & elevation: Roadsides, fallow ground, steppe habitats.
• Lebanese distribution: Ct. Saïda, Ras Jedra, Damour, Beirut, Khaldé, Jall-ed-Dib, Fou‘ar, Tripoli, Akkar plain. Mi. Broummana, Ghazir, Deir-el-Qamar. Mm. Beskinta, Bcharré, Dimane, ‘Akoura, Jezzine. Ve. Fissene. Herm. Baalbeck .
• Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Balearic Islands, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon–Syria, Libya, Morocco, NW Balkan Peninsula, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine (POWO).
• Introduced into: Canary Islands, Germany, Madeira, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania (POWO).