Can anyone help to identify this plant?

[boston bean]

It could be the most common plant on the face of the earth and I wouldn't be able to name it.

I was going to wait until it bloomed (it's at the budding stage), but I'm so curious, I thought I could ask..

Here are two pics..

[Little Star]

1. I have to get my magnifying glass, hold on a minute. lol

[zbdent]

2. pixilattus extremetis ...

[Curmudgeoness]

3. Is it possible to post the pictures in a larger format?

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?

[boston bean]

4. the leaves feel like felt.

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....

[Curmudgeoness]

5. Without a larger picture, or the bloom,

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

[XemaSab]

6. Doesn't mullein always have a basal rosette?

[Curmudgeoness]

7. Not always.

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

Mullein produces only a basal rosette of leaves in its first year of growth. The second year it produces a tall 1–2 m stem (stems reaching up to and exceeding 3 m, 10 ft have been reported) and ends in a dense spike of flowers, only a few of which flower at the same time. All parts of the plants are covered with star-shaped trichomes (plant hair). The dried stem and fruits usually persist in winter

But with that said, I realized that the plant in question has several stems. Hmmmm. Maybe not a mullein.

[HopeHoops]

8. Well, it isn't this...

[annabanana]

9. zowie!

Matanuska

[boston bean]

10. Update

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...