***NY-Introduced***

    Mullein is another one of those introduced plants that has become common in the state.  Like most of our European introductions this plant grows commonly on roadsides and disturbed areas.  Mullein can be recognized in flower by its tall, thick stalk, and many small yellow flowers.  The leaves are distinctive- thick and fleshy with many velvety hairs.  This characteristic earns them their other names -"Lamb's Ear" and  "Adam and Eve's Woolly White Underwear."  (I had a professor in college who really liked that one.)  This plant is biennial, producing flowers not in its first year, but in its second.  The immature plants are distinctive because of the foliage.