| Plant Type | Forb |
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| Life Cycle | Annual |
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| Wild/Cultivated | Wild |
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| Flower Color | yellow |
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| Habitat | Roadsides, Hillsides, Disturbed areas. |
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| Description | This plant starts as a basal rosette of large very fuzzy gray-green leaves. The leaves are strong and very soft. Later in its life cycle it sends up a straight stalk with flower attached directly to it at the top. This stalk can become many feet tall and can persist well into the winter. |
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| Utilitarian Uses | The old, dried stalks are excellent for hand-drill firemaking. The dried flower heads, dipped in a flammable liquid, can be used as a makeshift torch. |
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| Habitat | This plant is usually fond of dry, often rocky, well-drained soil. Once I even saw a Mullein plant growing out of a crack in the diagonal-sloping rock wall of an abandoned military fort. I guess that was close enough to a dry rocky hillside for it. |
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