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Read about Inula in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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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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 larvae 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
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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