Verbascum sinuatum, Scallop-Leaved Mullein,
Hebrew: בוצין מפורץ, Arabic:عورور

Scientific name:		Verbascum sinuatum L.
Common name:		Scallop-Leaved Mullein
Hebrew name:		בוצין מפורץ
Arabic name:		عورور
Plant Family:		Scrophulariaceae, לועניתיים

Life form:		Hemicryptophyte
Stems:		50-100cm
Leaves:		Alternate, rosette, entire, dentate or serrate
Inflorescence:		Freely branched, lax
Flowers:		Yellow; filament-hairs violet
Fruits / pods:		Capsule, subglobose
Flowering Period:		April, May, June, July, August, September, October
Habitat:		Batha, Phrygana
Distribution:		The Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Shrub-steppes, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon
Chorotype:		Med - Irano-Turanian
Summer shedding:		Perennating

Derivation of the botanical name: Verbascum, mullein; corrupted form of barbascum, from the Latin barba (a beard), in allusion to the shaggy foliage; the ancient Latin name for this plant. sinuatum , sinuate, with a wavy margin; wavy edged. The Hebrew name: בוצין, busin, Aramaic בוצינא, būṣīnā, a wick, a lamp, because of the shape of the flower. The standard author abbreviation L. is used to indicate Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, the father of modern taxonomy. Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) describes in Naturalis Historia, book 25, chapter 120: "Verbascum Graeci phlomon vocant. genera habet prima duo: album, in quo mas intellegitur, alterum nigrum, in quo femina. tertium genus non nisi in silvis invenitur". - Verbascum is called Phlomis by the Greeks. There are two primary kinds of it: the pale, which is thought to be male; the other is dark and regarded as female. There is a third kind only in woods.