Mullen or, more correctly, Verbascum thapsus.

Thank you Mg.

Your welcome - can be a bit of a thug but bees of all kinds love it

I noticed the bees all over it and wondered. It's growing in an undeveloped area near the ocean.

If you stop awhile and take some seed pods Bathgate, it will fill an odd corner in your garden without any trouble,
and attract Bees to benefit other plants. Always good on the compost heap.

I just might do that Diane, thanks! I just googled this plant and it IS the medicine plant I thought it was. It can clear out your medicine chest with all the remedies it provides.

And it is the food plant of the endangered (at least it is in Britain) Mullein moth. We only grow the plant for the caterpillars to eat.

That's interesting. I like it's verticle growth habit. Maybe I'll add it to my butterfly garden.

Oh, please do Bathgate!

its a biennial so lots of furry leaves in yr 1 then the flower spike in the second.
the flowers open up randomly up the stem too.

I also have it for the mullein moth.

I'm drawn to the odd and strange and this certainly fits in. I wonder what that says about me! :O

Same as it says about me Bathgate, we like the unusual.
it is a wonderful plant, collect some seed you wont be disappointed. :o)

I've done a little reading about it - I think this plant holds the cure for cancer.