‘Sixteen Candles’ is a seed cultivar of the species that features bright yellow flowers with violet stamens.
Narrow-leaved mullein species that is sometimes commonly called nettle-leaved mullein. It is a somewhat short-lived perennial which forms a large basal rosette (8-12" wide) of woolly, coarsely toothed, dull grayish-green, ovate-oblong leaves (3-6" long) from which rise spire-like, unbranched stems (2-3" tall) with terminal racemes of 5 lobed, nearly flat, yellow flowers (1 inch diameter) with purplish stamens. Blooms in late spring to early summer.
