Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 178 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europe Australioris locis argillaceis."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (24 October 1854), Second general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the Colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 14 [secondary reference]

Bentham, G. (16 December 1868), Flora Australiensis 4: 473 [secondary reference]

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 535 [secondary reference]

Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 236 [secondary reference]

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 144 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 228 [secondary reference]

common name: Mullein [n/a]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 358 [secondary reference]

common name: Moth Mullein [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1967), Angiospermae: Plumbaginaceae to Salicaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania 3: 512 [secondary reference]

common name: Moth Mullein [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 324 [secondary reference]

common name: Moth Mullein [n/a] common name: Spurious Mullein [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 201 [secondary reference]

Barker, W.R. & Harden, G.J. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1992), Verbascum. Flora of New South Wales 3: 566-567 [secondary reference]

common name: Moth Mullein [n/a]

Barker, W.R. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1999), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of Victoria 4: 499, Fig. 97c APC [secondary reference]

common name: Moth Mullein [n/a]

• APC Dist.: NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 77 [secondary reference]

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