Today, I’d like to continue our conversation about mullein, aka Verbascum thapsus. By now, you know how to identify it, (if you didn’t catch the earlier blogpost about Identifying Mullein go check it out!) so now I want to give some tips on harvesting. Harvest the roots in the fall of the first year. By …
Let’s talk about cultivating mullein, aka Verbascum thapsus. These guys are going to start popping up soon here in North Idaho (once the snow decides to leave). All during the growing year in most countries in the world you will find mullein along roadsides, railroad tracks, open fields and construction sites. I have several mullein …
Dandelion was one of the first “weeds” I learned to forage/wildcraft. Maybe it was yours as well. The day I discovered that dandelion wasn’t just a weed, and had been deliberately planted by early American settlers as a spring tonic, was exciting, to say the least. Suddenly a seemingly annoying weed became a health ally …
Verbascum thapsus Common Name: mullein Other Names: cowboy’s toilet paper (wipe with the grain), great mullein, Aaron’s rod, candlewick plant, cow lungwort, velvet dock, flannel plant, feltwort, shepherd’s staff, torches, our lady’s flannel, blanket herb, rag paper, wild ice leaf, clown’s lungwort, Peter’s staff, Jacob’s staff, shepherd’s club, beggar’s stalk, Adam’s flannel, beggar’s blanket, fluffweed, …
