Verbascum chaixii

Verbascum chaixii, the nettle-leaved mullein, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Verbascum, native to Spain, France, Italy (including Sicily), the former Yugoslavia, and Greece.^[2] It is considered a good plant to attract pollinators.^[3] With Verbascum bombyciferum it is a parent of the 'Pink Domino' cultivar, which has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.^[4]

Verbascum chaixii
'Sixteen Candles' cultivar
Close up of flower
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Lamiales
Family:	Scrophulariaceae
Genus:	Verbascum
Species:	V. chaixii
Binomial name
Verbascum chaixii Vill.[1]