Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 177 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae glareosis sterilibus. ♀."

Tenison-Woods, J.E. (1881), Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 52 [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]

Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 506 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. & Robertson, E.L. (1957), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 4: 763 [secondary reference]

common name: Aaron's Rod [n/a] common name: Great Mullein [n/a]

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

common name: Aaron's Rod [n/a] common name: Great Mullein [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 323 [secondary reference]

common name: Great Mullein [n/a] common name: Wild Tobacco [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 600 [secondary reference]

common name: Aaron's Rod [n/a] common name: Flannel Leaf [n/a] common name: Blanket Weed [n/a] common name: Great Mullein [n/a]

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

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 150 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1986), Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 2: 435 [secondary reference]

common name: Aaron's Rod [n/a] common name: Great Mullein [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 335 APC [secondary reference]

common name: Shepherd's Blanket [n/a]

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Paczkowska, G. & Chapman, A.R. (2000), The Western Australian Flora, a descriptive catalogue: 534 [secondary reference]

common name: Great Mullein [n/a]

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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