Identification tips
Tip #1: This mustard family takes a hard time inventing a tip on how to decorate the name, but the genre comes from the Greek thlaein, "crush", "flattened" which is the characteristic of the fruits of this species and the species comes from Latin and means from the field.
Identification tips
Tip #1: the genus name Verbascum was derived from the Latin of the species barbascum, which means "bearded plant" this association is made with the amount of hair squeeging the plant.
Identification tips
Tip #1: xanthos comes from Greek, yellow and stanza means "cushion as swelling" in reference to seed pods. I confess that the name is not too difficult to make yellow pad analogy, but the image I did got very bad 😭.