Plant Details

Accepted name:: Verbascum thapsus L. [Scrophulariaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Verbascum thapsus subsp. montanum (Schrad.) Bonnier & Layens

Verbascum thapsus subsp. thapsus

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
aaron's rod	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
aaron's-rod	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
aklbeer	Other	Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun Himalaya (Bhatt et al., 2013)
ayu kulak	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
ban tambaaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
banban	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bandar puchhare	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bankhor	Other	Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
barbasco	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
big taper	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
birodō-mōzuika	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blanketweed	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bouillon blanc	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
bugi	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
bà wáng biān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
common mullein	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007) Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. in Armenian Trad. Med. for Antimicr. Activity (Ginovyan et al., 2017) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
cough-flannel	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020)
cow’s lungwort	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
dà máo yè	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
flannel mullein	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
flannel plant	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
flannel-plant	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
flannelleaf	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
flannelplant	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
gidar tambaaku	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
gidder tambakoo	Other	Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
gider tabaco	Other	Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016)
gordolobo común	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
great mullein	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
grey mullein	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guardalobo	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
guna puchhar	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
guntho	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
hag taper	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
hie shong	Other	Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009)
hikusing	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
hǔ wěi biān	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
jacob's staff	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
jhangli tambako	Other	Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
khar ghwag	Other	Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020)
khardag	Other	Contaminat. of Soil, Med. and Fodder Pl., Pakistan (Nawab et al., 2015) Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
kharghwag	Other	Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014)
khargwag	Other	Ethnobot. Relevance of Weed Flora, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2016)
korovyak obyknovennyy	Other	Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)
korovâk obyknovennyj	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
kungsljus	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mao rui hua	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
molène	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mullein	Other	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mullein flower	Other	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Verbascum spp., flo. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
máo ruǐ cǎo	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
niú ěr duǒ	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
phullaa	Other	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
sin gi gser bye	Other	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
torches	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
vel	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
velvet dock	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
velvet plant	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
verbasci flos	Pharmaceutical	EMA Com. Monog.: Verbascum spp., flo. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
verbascum thapsus	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
woolly mullein	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
yizhuxiang	Other	Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
yī zhù xiāng	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
一炷香	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
大毛叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
毛蕊花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
毛蕊草	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
牛耳朵	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
虎尾鞭	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
霸王鞭	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
flower		British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014)
flower		Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000)
flos		EMA Com. Monog.: Verbascum spp., flo. (2007)
Leaves		Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016)
Whole plant		Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014)
Leaves		Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018)
Leaves		Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019)
Leaves, floral parts and seeds		Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014)
leaf, inflorescence, root		Pl. in Armenian Trad. Med. for Antimicr. Activity (Ginovyan et al., 2017)
leaves, frond, flower, root		Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Leaves		Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020)
Leaves		Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009)
leaves		Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011)
leaves		Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011)
Whole plant		Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010)
flower, leaf		Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun Himalaya (Bhatt et al., 2013)
herb		Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
flower	dried flower	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008)
flower	dried flower	European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007)
flower	Dried flower, reduced to the corolla and the androecium	European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012)
herb, roots, leaves, flowers		Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 1 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Verbascum spectabile Salisb. Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton: 104 (1796), nom. superfl.

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Verbascum thapsus	Ethnomedica (RBG, Kew, 2020) Med. Pl. in Russia & C Asia (Mamedov et al., 2005) Polyglot Asian Med.: Malay Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007)
Verbascum thapsus L.	British Pharmacopoeia 2009, Vol. 4 (2008) British Pharmacopoeia 2012, Vol. 4 (2011) British Pharmacopoeia 2015, Vol. 4 (2014) EMA Com. Monog.: Verbascum spp., flo. (2007) Econ. & Ecolog. Important Pl. Commun., Pakistan (Sher & Al Yemeni, 2011) Ethnobot. Relevance of Weed Flora, Pakistan (Khan et al., 2016) Ethnobot. in W Granada Province, Spain (Benítez et al., 2010) Ethnobot. of Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Sher & Hussain, 2009) Ethnobot. of Some Pl. Resources in Pakistan (Ali et al., 2011) Ethnomed. of Marghazar Valley, Pakistan (Yousufzai et al., 2010) European Pharmacopoeia, 6th edn. (2007) European Pharmacopoeia, 7th edn. (2012) GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) Hagers Handbuch (Hänsel et al., 1992-1998) Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Homegarden Med. Ethnobot. of Naxi in NW Yunnan (Yang et al., 2014) Indig. Knwlg. of Med. Pl., Pakistan. (Khan et al., 2020) Med. Floral Knwlg. of Sarban Hills, Pakistan (Ijaz et al., 2016) Med. Pl. Used by Tibetans in Shangri-La, Yunnan (Liu et al., 2009) Med. Pl. Uzbekistan & Kyrgyzstan (Eisenman et al., 2013) Med. Pl. by Vanraji Tribes of Kumaun Himalaya (Bhatt et al., 2013) Med. Pl. in Arid Regions of N. Punjab, Pakistan (Ashfaq et al., 2019) Med. Pl. in Mountainous Chail Valley, Pakistan (Ahmad et al., 2014) Med. Pl. in the Med.: Project Rubia (Gonzalez-Tejero et al., 2008) Native American Ethnobot.(Moerman, 1998) Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997) Pl. Meds for Musculoskeletal Disorders, N. Pakistan (Malik et al., 2018) Pl. Méd. de la Pharmacopée: Liste A (2000) Pl. in Armenian Trad. Med. for Antimicr. Activity (Ginovyan et al., 2017) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020) World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Verbascum thapsus Linn.	Indian Med. Pl. Dictionary (Khare, 2007)
Verbascum thapsus Linnaeus	Pl. & People of Nepal (Manandhar, 2002)
Verbiscum thapsus	Contaminat. of Soil, Med. and Fodder Pl., Pakistan (Nawab et al., 2015)

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