Strange Flowers/Plants? We have these plants or flower type things growing next to our...

We have these plants or flower type things growing next to our shed and would resembling to know if they are a weed or a flower or somekind of plant. Right now they are a little over 5 foot tall. And it looks as though there are flower buds at the top.

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Answers:    to be precise a weed, though some find it ornamental and there are some attractive varieties.

It is called 'Mullein' or Verbascum thapsis

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/vet...
That is a great mullein. Some race consider them weeds, but when planted at the back of a garden, I own seen them used as a decorative specimen. The leaves at the bottom aren't the prettiest, but the attractive sickly flower spike opens, it is quite pretty. idk