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The apex of the common mullein plant is a club-shaped flower spike 6-24" long, covered with scattered light-yellow flowers each 3/4" across. Individual flowers have five hairy, green sepals; five pale yellow petals (the lower two slightly larger than the upper three); five stamens with reddish-orange anthers; and a single green style with a heart- or disc-shaped stigma. The upper three stamens are shorter than the other two stamens and covered with white or yellow hairs; the lower two stamens are longer and largely hairless. The fruit is an oval, two-celled seed capsule, brown when mature, each cell filled with numerous (25-150) tiny orange to brown seeds. Common mullein is immediately recognizable and impossible to confuse with any other local plant.

Verbascum

Verbascum thapsus

common mullein [Blooms: Jun-Aug]

Wild pansy's flower stalks are long, hairless, and bend like a shepherd's crook just below the base of the flower so the flower axis is approximately horizontal. Individual flowers have five 7-15 mm long, lance-shaped sepals that are longer than the petals and are sharply pointed at their tips; a 4-12 mm long corolla with five white or pale cream-colored petals, a yellow throat with a few dark purple lines, the lateral petals bearded on their upper surface, and a 1-1.5 mm long spur; two stamens not visible externally; and a single style enlarged into a hollow, globose stigma. The fruit is a spherical or ellipsoidal three-valved capsule, 5-10 mm long containing 6-75, 1.5 mm long, brown seeds.

Viola

Viola arvensis

wild pansy [Blooms: Jun-?]