purple mullein

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   Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers

   SynonymsVerbascum phoeniceum

   Broadermullein

Questions about purple mullein

What does purple mullein mean?

purple mullein means "Eurasian mullein with showy purple or pink flowers".

What is another word for purple mullein?

Close synonyms include Verbascum phoeniceum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is purple mullein a common word?

purple mullein is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.