Plants 20–80+ cm. Leaves: basal blades lanceolate, 2–6 cm × 5–15 (–30) mm; cauline blades broadly elliptic to lanceolate, (3–) 5–7+ cm × 12–20 mm, bases cordate, clasping (faces usually glabrous, adaxial venation raised, reticulation prominent). Involucres 8–12 (–20) mm diam. Outer phyllaries lance-linear, 5–7 × 1.5–2.5 mm; inner similar, more scarious. Ray-florets 35–70; corolla laminae 10–15+ mm. Disc corollas 5–7+ mm. Cypselae 1.5–2 mm, glabrous; pappi of 30–40+, distinct or basally connate, barbellate bristles 7–8 mm. 2n = 16.
Phenology: Flowering mid–late summer.
Habitat: Roadsides, waste places
Distribution
Introduced; Mass., N.Y., Europe
Discussion
Inula salicina is probably an occasional escape from garden trash and not truly established in the flora.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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tailed +
introrse +
connate +
rounded;truncate +
scarious +
hirsute +
papillate +
continuous +
lanceolate +
clasping +
cordate +
ribbed +
stigmatic +
barbellate +
30;40 +
absent +
not 2-lipped +
yellow +
monomorphic +
not beaked +
glabrous +
1.5mm;2mm +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
indeterminate +
heterogamous +
scarious +
true +
surrounding +
campanulate;hemispheric +
alternate +
deltate +
lance-linear +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
anatropous +
persistent +
tough +
thick +
connate +
persistent +
distinct +
Sp. Pl. +
1753 +
pistillate +
fertile +
epaleate +
convex;flat +
fibrous +
barbellate +
setiform +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
1;4;7 +
alternate +
2-branched +
glabrous +
papillate +
Inula salicina +
Inula +
species +
perennial +