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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.
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 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. N. Taylor.
+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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			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. N. Taylor.

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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Inula''
| image = Koeh-210.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''[[Inula helenium]]''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Asterales]]
| familia = [[Asteraceae]]
| subfamilia = [[Asteroideae]]
| tribus = [[Inuleae]]
| genus = '''''Inula'''''
}}

'''''Inula''''' is a large genus of about 90 species of [[flowering plant]]s in the family [[Asteraceae]], native to [[Europe]], [[Asia]] and [[Africa]]. It has been reported that this genus is [[paraphyletic]], based on chemical data of the [[phenol]]ic compounds of this genus.

These are mostly perennial herbs. The species vary greatly in size, from tiny species for rock gardens to enormous perennials reaching a height of over 3 metres. This genus shows equally a marked difference in the size of the leaves.

Some common characteristics include [[pappus]] with bristles, flat [[capitulum]], and lack of [[chaff]].

Several species are popular flowers for the garden, going back to antiquity. The name ''Inula'' was already used by the Romans.

== Selected species ==
*''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.)
[[Image:Koeh-192.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Ploughman's-spikenard (''Inula conyzae'')]]
*''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.
[[Image:Inula helenium.jpg|thumb|right|225px|''Inula helenium'']]
*''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''.

== References ==
*[http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/cgi-bin/nph-readbtree.pl/feout?FAMILY_XREF=&GENUS_XREF=Inula&SPECIES_XREF=&TAXON_NAME_XREF=&RANK=species Flora Europaea: ''Inula'']
*[http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=3&start_taxon_id=116442 Flora of China: list of Chinese ''Inula'' species]
*{{cite journal | quotes=no|author=Anderberg, A.|year= 1991|title= Taxonomy and phylogeny of tribe Inuleae (Asteraceae)|journal= Pl. Syst. Evol.|volume= 176|pages= 75-123}}
*{{cite journal | quotes=no|author = Rubina Abid and M. Qaiser|year = 2003|title = Chemotoxonomic study of ''Inula'' L. (s.str.) and its allied genera (Inuleae - Compositae) from Pakistan and Kashmir|journal = Pak. J. Bot.|volume=35|issue=2|pages = 127-140}}
{{Commonscat|Inula}}

[[category:Asteraceae]]