Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Eudicots
• Clade: Superasterids
• Clade: Asterids
• Clade: Lamiids
• Order: Lamiales
• Family: Scrophulariaceae
• Tribe: Scrophularieae
• Genus: Verbascum
• Species: Verbascum blattaria

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with V. virgatum Stokes, 1787, whose flowers are borne on pedicels shorter than the calyx, while those of V. blattaria are born on pedicels longer than the calyx.

Hybridizes with:

• V. densiflorum Bertol., 1810 to produce V. × bastardii Roem. & Schult., 1819, P (het. syn. V. × ramosissimum (Bastard) DC., 1815);
• V. lychnitis L., 1753 to produce V. × pseudoblattaria (Gaudin) Schleich. ex W.D.J.Koch, 1844, P;
• V. nigrum L., 1753 to produce V. × intermedium Rupr. ex Pfund, 1840, P;
• V. phlomoides L., 1753 to produce V. × flagriforme Pfund, 1840, P;
• V. pulverulentum Vill., 1779 to produce V. × macilentum Franch., 1868, P;
• V. sinuatum L., 1753 to produce V. × geminatum Freyn, 1876, P;
• V. thapsus L., 1753 to produce V. × pterocaulon Franch., 1868, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 1055). Biotope.