Also, let us know anything you can----how do the leaves feel and look? Rough, hairy, smooth? Where was it found? Or did you buy it?

I will get a larger pic and post it.

I found it in the garden. I didn't buy it. My father passed and it was there in the garden, and I can't recall him telling me where he got it. but it's doing wonderfully now. I am just so curious... And of course, I want to help keep it alive....

my guess is some sort of mullein. But I will wait to be more definitive, if I can be.

The first year, that is true. But the second year, it produces a long stem. I have a "garden mullein", which I don't know the proper name of, and it does not have a basal rosette the second year.

http://www.rewild.info/fieldguide/index.php?title=Mullein

Matanuska

I had a guest over the house who was able to identify the plant. I'm so sorry for the image size.

It's sage....

that's what I was told. the leaves do smell like sage, I believe...