63.) SCROPHULARIACEAE - Figwort family
- Verbascum blattaria L. (Moth Mullein) / General
- Verbascum virgatum Stokes (Twiggy Mullein) /- General
- Verbascum phoeniceum L. (Purple Mullein) 1911 General
- Verbascum phlomoides L. (Orange Mullein) General
- Verbascum densiflorum Bertol. (Dense-flowered Mullein) General
- Verbascum thapsus L. (Great Mullein) / General
- Verbascum ovalifolium Donn ex Sims (which sspp.? - ssp. ovalifolium, ssp. thracicum (Velen.) Murb. - Kew) (Find common name! - Oval-leaved Mullein?) 1932 General
- Verbascum chaixii Vill. (Nettle-leaved Mullein) 1912 General
- Verbascum nigrum L. (Dark Mullein) /- General
- Verbascum lychnitis L. (ssp. lychnitis - Kew var. album (Mill.) Druce - Stace, NBN) (White Mullein) 1978 General
- Scrophularia nodosa L. (Common Figwort) / Woodland
- Scrophularia auriculata L. (Water Figwort) / Wetland
- Scrophularia umbrosa Dumort. (Green Figwort) 1963 General
- Limosella aquatica L. (Mudwort) - Wetland
- Buddleja alternifolia Maxim. (Alternate-leaved Butterfly-bush) 1979 General
- Buddleja davidii Franch. (Butterfly-bush) / General [It would be impossible to imagine a brownfield site, ruin, railway line or building without the adorning presence of a Buddleja but this iconic species was only first recorded in our area from the Avon Gorge in 1928.]
Species to add:
- Verbascum boerhavii L. (Annual Mullein - iNaturalist, Boerhav's Mullein?) - [Sandwith, 1932]
- Verbascum sinuatum L. var. sinuatum (Wavy-leaved Mullein, Wavyleaf Mullein - GBIF, Scallop-leaved Mullein - Wikipedia) - [Sandwith, 1932]
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Verbascum speciosum Schrad. (Hungarian Mullein) - [Sandwith, 1932] (several plants at Severn Beach in 2023 during a BNS meeting, two large rosettes spotted at Bath in August, 2024 by Dave Pole - Bath Nats)
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Verbascum blattarioides Lam. - [Brist. Fl. This is synonymous with V. virgatum ssp. virgatum which White records separately. Probably something else was intended.] check!
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Scrophularia vernalis L. (Yellow Figwort) - found by David Hawkins on University Road at ST58077334 [record mentioned in Nature in Avon 2025, 194]. [2 other BSBI records exist]
- Chaenostoma cordatum Benth. (Bacopa) - Rupert Higgins
- Nemesia denticulata (Benth.) Grant ex Fourc. (Toothed Aloha)