flannel-flower

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun An Australian plant, Actinotus Helianthi, of the parsley family. It bears white flowers in simple umbels surrounded by a many-leaved involucre, which is longer than the flowers and looks as if it were cut out of white flannel.
• noun The mullen, Verbascum Thapsus.
• noun The Macrosiphonia longiflora, an apocynaceous vine of Brazil, densely covered with woolly hairs. Its flowers are remarkable for the length of the tube.