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| Distribution | Native to Eurasia, now naturalized nearly throughout temperate regions of both hemispheres.In the Hawaiian Islands,
naturalized on
Maui, Hawai`i.
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Habit
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Stout biennial herbs 3-20 dm tall in the second year, densely yellowish woolly tomentose throughout, the hairs stellate or dendritic.
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Leaves
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Basal leaves obovate to oblanceolate, 8-50 cm long, 2.5-14 cm wide, densely yellowish or whitish woolly tomentose, margins entire to shallowly crenate; cauline leaves becoming progressively smaller toward the inflorescence, oblanceolate, sessile and decurrent on stem.
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Flowers
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Flowers in compact, spike-like panicles, pedicels partly adnate to the stem; calyx (5-)8-12 mm long, the lobes lanceolate; corolla yellow, rarely white, 8-15 mm long, scurfy pubescent externally, sometimes also ciliate, the hairs stellate; upper 3 staminal filaments villous with yellow hairs, the lower 2 glabrous to sparsely villous.
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Fruit
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Capsules broadly ovoid to elliptic-ovoid, 0.7-1 cm long, densely tomentose with stellate or branched hairs.
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Chromosomes
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2n = 32, 34, 36
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