Scallop-Leaved Mullein
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 |
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| 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.
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. 
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