large, thin, fuzzy leaves, feel like thin felt

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  1. donw

    donw New Seed

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    This plant volunteered in my garden and I've never seen one like it before. Can anyone identify it? Thanks, down
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    Don, a photo would be a big help!
     
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    Don, You have to click on the picture when you are making your post. I see the picture in your garden, but I don't know how to move it to your garden or if it is even possible for me to anyhow, but the plant looks like mullein to me. It will get a tall spike of yellow flowers on it, too. It is used as a medicinal herb for pulmonary illness.
     
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    Lambs ear
     



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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Looks like Lambs ear to me too. It has purple spikes of flowers.
     
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    Netty Chaotic Gardener Plants Contributor

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    Looks like Mullein to me too.
     
  8. donm

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    I think you have mullein, too.

    This was a volunteer in my garden last year.
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    Lamb's Ear.
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  9. donw

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    thanks everybody.

     
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    toni Mistress of Garden Junque Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    Are the leaves on your plant as textured as those on this Lamb's Ear?

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    Lamb's Ear ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
     
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    I will have to go with Mullin too.Ha ha I've been wrong
    before!
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    The mullein has a rosette of leaves, if you look closely at the lamb's ear you will notice the leaf has a petiole that attaches it to the stem at the center of the plant. The lambs ear is a flower for the flower bed and the mullein is more of a weed, a useful weed, but a weed none the less.
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    On closer inspections I think the others are right and that it is indeed Mullein.
     
  14. donw

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    Thanks for all your help, everyone. Mullein or Lambs Ear, I'll check them out. donw
     

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