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Inula (ancient name). Compositae. Hardy herbaceous plants of the easiest culture and of rather coarse habit, with heads of yellow or orange, each 2 to 4 inches across, borne in summer.

Herbs, usually perennial, glandular, hairy : lvs. radical or alternate, entire or serrate: heads large, medium or small, solitary, corymbose, panicled or crowded at the crown; fls. tubular and ray, the rays yellow, rarely white; disk-fls. perfect, their tubular corollas 5-toothed: achenes 4-5-ribbed. — A genus of about 56 species, found in Eu., Asia and Afr. None of its near allies is cult.

There is such a great abundance of autumn-flowering yellow composites in the hardy border that only those inulas that bloom in early summer are particularly desirable. Elecampane, I. helenium, is probably also cultivated for medicine. A preparation of the mucilaginous roots is common in drugstores. Inula flowers have as many as forty linear rays. The plants like a sunny position, grow vigorously in any garden soil, and are propagated by division or seed.

I. oculus-christi. Linn. Two ft.; an erect, somewhat branched, woolly perennial with oblong hairy lvs.: fls. yellow, the rays twice longer than the involucral bracts. Sold in England, but apparently unknown in Amer. 
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==Cultivation==
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===Propagation===
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===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
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*''Inula acaulis'' Schott &  Kotschy  ex Tchihat. – Stemless Inula
*''Inula acervata'' S.Moore
*''Inula acinacifolia'' Gand.
*''Inula acuminata'' DC.
*''Inula anatolica'' Boiss.
*''Inula auriculata'' Boiss. & Balansa
*''Inula bifrons'' (L.) L.
*''Inula britannica'' L. – British Yellowhead
*''Inula candida'' (L.) Cass.
*''Inula cappa'' (Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don) DC. 
*''Inula caspica'' Blume
*''Inula clarkei'' ( Hook.f.) R.R.Stewart
*''Inula conyzae'' (Griess.) Meikle – Plougman's-spikenard
*''Inula crithmoides'' L. – [[Golden samphire]] (syn. ''Limbarda crithmoides'' (L.) Dum.)
*''Inula cuspidata''
*''Inula ensifolia'' L.
*''Inula eupatorioides'' DC. 
*''Inula falconeri'' Hook.f.
*''Inula forrestii''
*''Inula germanica'' L. 
*''Inula grandis'' Schrenk ex Fisch. & C. A. Mey.
*''Inula helenioides'' DC.
*''Inula helenium'' L. – [[Elecampane]] 
*''Inula helianthus-aquatica''
*''Inula helvetica'' Weber
*''Inula hirta'' L.
*''Inula hookeri'' C. B. Clarke 
*''Inula hupehensis''
*''Inula japonica''
*''Inula koelzii'' R.Dawar &  Qaiser
*''Inula lineariifolia'' Turcz. 
*''Inula montana'' L.
*''Inula multicaulis'' Boiss.
*''Inula nervosa''
*''Inula obtusifolia'' A.Kern.
*''Inula oculus-christi'' L.
*''Inula orientalis'' Lam. 
*''Inula pterocaula''
*''[[Inula racemosa]]'' Hook.f. 
*''Inula rhizocephala'' Schrenk ex Fisch. & C. A. Mey. 
*''Inula rhizocephaloides''
*''[[Inula royleana]]'' DC. (synonym of ''Inula racemosa'' Hook.f.)
*''Inula rubricaulis''
*''Inula salicina'' L. – Irish Fleabane, Willowleaf Yellowhead
*''Inula salsoloides''
*''Inula sericophylla''
*''Inula spiraeifolia'' L.
*''Inula stewartii'' Abid & Qaiser
*''Inula subfloccosa'' Rech.f.
*''Inula thapsoides'' Spreng.
*''Inula verbascifolia'' (Willd.) Hausskn.
*''Inula wissmanniana''

''Inula'' species are used as food plants by the [[larva]]e of some [[Lepidoptera]] species including the following case-bearers of the genus ''[[Coleophora]]''; ''C. conyzae'' (recorded on ''I. conyzae''), ''C. follicularis'', ''C. inulae'' and ''C. troglodytella''.

===Selection of species not anymore belonging to genus ''Inula''===
* ''Inula dysenterica'' L. => ''[[Pulicaria dysenterica]]'' (L.) Bernh.
* ''Inula graminifolia'' Michx. => ''[[Pityopsis graminifolia]]'' (Michx.) Nutt. 
* ''Inula graveolens'' (L.) Desf. => ''[[Dittrichia graveolens]]'' (L.) Greuter – Stinkwort, Stinkweed
* ''Inula indica'' L. => ''[[Pentanema indicum]]'' (L.) Y.Ling
* ''Inula mariana'' L. => ''[[Chrysopsis mariana]]'' (L.) Elliott 
* ''Inula primulifolia'' Lam. => ''[[Conyza primulifolia]]'' (Lam.) Cuatrec. & Lourteig 
* ''Inula subaxillaris'' Lam. => ''[[Heterotheca subaxillaris]]'' (Lam.) Britton & Rusby  
* ''Inula viscosa'' => ''[[Dittrichia viscosa]]'' – Stinkwort, False yellowhead, Woody Fleabane

==Gallery==
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<gallery>
Image:Koeh-192.jpg|Ploughman's-spikenard (''Inula conyzae'')
Image:Inula helenium.jpg|''Inula helenium''
Image:Upload.png| photo 1
Image:Upload.png| photo 2
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->

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