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 densiflorum

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

• Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
• Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with V. thapsus L., 1753, whose flowers have a capitate stigma, while those of V. densiflorum have a spatulate stigma.

Hybridizes with:

• V. blattaria L., 1753 to produce V. × bastardii Roem. & Schult., 1819, P (het. syn. V. × ramosissimum (Bastard) DC., 1815);
• V. lychnitis L., 1753 to produce V. × ramigerum Link ex Schrad., 1813, P;
• V. nigrum L., 1753 to produce V. × ambiguum Lej., 1825, P;
• V. phlomoides L., 1753 to produce V. × interjectum Pfund, 1840, P;
• V. pulverulentum Vill., 1779 to produce V. × nothum W.D.J.Koch, 1837, P;
• V. sinuatum L., 1753 to produce V. × diphyon Franch., 1868, P (het. syn. V. × debeauxii Gaut. ex Rouy, 1909);
• V. thapsus L., 1753 to produce V. × humnickii Franch., 1868, P;
• V. virgatum Stokes, 1787 to produce V. × martini Franch., 1868, P.

Photographs

Sources

• Schweizer, F., & Hasinger, O. (2014). Verbascum densiflorum (Europe assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2014. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/203476/2766035

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