Unidentified flower

[goosey]

This was rather tall about 155cm, with a silverish tinge to the green, furry leaves.



In the winter the rosette of leaves are silver, not green and can be seen all over the NP especially in very sandy areas where there seems to be little soil and can measure anywhere upto 45cm across.

Why it caught my notice today when I have ignored them all summer is that this was the only one I have seen for a while in flower, the rest have returned to ground level.

[paul m]

I'd agree with Black - some sort of Verbascum.
You're clearly having a similar year to us with continued, late flowering of plants. I was out on the White Peak yesterday: not too surprised to see a few late harebells (Campanula), Potentilla or even scabious - late summer flowers - but there were also violets (Viola sp) and other early-summer plants in flower ...
We've had a few days which seemed like the legendary 'Indian Summer' - although I wouldn't want to argue what that means (sunny, warm periods in October-November?) or where the term comes from ..... which 'Indian'?

[goosey]

Funny you should say that about the viola's, I saw some of the tiny wild ones on Friday and thought it was odd.
It is easy to forget it October - it has been really nice most days for about three weeks now, just prior to this good weather we had some very cold mornings.
Thanks for the ID!

[ericrovve]

Yes, that's surely Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus, a late flowerer anyway, but would need open flowers to be sure.
Even up here at altitude, with frosty mornings, there are still a few flowers around - Iberis stricta, for example, and a few thistles.