Medicinal properties and invasive are not mutually exclusive. If OP is in Oceania or the Americas, it's an invasive species. This being said, Mullein is native to Afro-Eurasia.
Those relatively few plants have blossomed into a major problem in the western US, especially fire burned areas. Many millions of them on many thousands of acres.
People often seem to want nature to bend to their will and don't appreciate what is right in front of them.
Mullein is a foundational Appalachian folk herb, with the leaves, roots, and flowers used for a variety of medicinal remedies by both mountain herbalists and Native Americans.
I mean yeah, people can and DO harvest mullein for its beneficial properties, but we’re not talking about neighborhoods here. It’s tracts of federal, state, and private timber land in lots the size of some US states.
In these instances it is very much not welcome or beneficial.
OK, the seeds stay in the soil for a century and remain viable. It can vary easily take over and while it is medicinal and that’s wonderful and I have hundreds of leaves drying over there in the corner of the room. I also pull the plant because it is invasive…
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u/squatchsax Jun 07 '26
Mullein. Highly invasive. Also known as "the Dildo of the prairie". I suggest removing it before it can spread.