First-year mullein at Gaia's Garden, started from seed and just putting out its true leaves. By the second year the rosette will be much bigger and a tall flower spike will rise.

A young mullein plant grown from seed at Gaia's Garden in Umpire, Arkansas, the first true leaves visible in a straw-mulched bed

Photographed April 23, 2026 in Gaia Devi Stillwagon's medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas's Ouachita foothills.

This is Mullein (Verbascum thapsus), grown in our medicine garden in Umpire, Arkansas.

Tags: Newly planted mullein in the herbal medicine garden, started from seed.