Verbascum berytheum, Verbascum bulbosum, Beiruth Mullein,
Hebrew: בוצין בירותי, Arabic: البوصير البيروتي
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Scientific name:		Verbascum berytheum Boiss.
Scientific name:		Verbascum bulbosum Ehrenb. ex Boiss.
Common name:		Beiruth Mullein
Hebrew name:		בוצין בירותי
Arabic name:		البوصير البيروتي
Family:		Scrophulariaceae, לועניתיים

Life form:		Hemicryptophyte
Stems:		Up to 100cm; covered with simple hairs
Leaves:		Rosette, simple, alternate
Inflorescence:		Terminal racemes
Flowers:		Yellow, short tube, 5-lobed, stamens 4 or 5, filaments villous
Fruits / pods:		Capsule septicidal, numerous seeds
Flowering Period:		April, May
Habitat:		Loam soil in the coastal plain
Distribution:		The Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands
Chorotype:		Mediterranean
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. berytheum, Beirut, Lebanon. Mullein from Anglo-French moleine (French moulaine), perhaps literally "the soft-leaved plant," from French mol "soft," from Latin mollis "soft." The Hebrew name: בוצין, busin, Aramaic בוצינא, būṣīnā, a wick, a lamp, because of the shape of the flower. The standard author abbreviation Boiss. is used to indicate Pierre Edmond Boissier (1810 – 1885), a Swiss botanist, explorer and mathematician. The standard author abbreviation Ehrenb. is used to indicate Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795 – 1876), a German naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist. Verbascum berytheum is an endangered species endemic to loam soil in the coastal plain in Israel and Lebanon.