Inula graveolens (L.) Desf.
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Authority
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
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Family
Asteraceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Taprooted, freely branching (when well developed), aromatic and copiously glandular annual to 1 m; lvs all cauline, broadly linear to linear-elliptic, entire or few-toothed, to ca 10 × 1 cm; heads numerous in a diffuse, leafy-bracteate infl, small, the disk to ca 1.5 cm wide, the invol 6–8 mm, its bracts all narrow, the outer greener; rays few and inconspicuous, hardly exceeding the disk; achenes loosely strigose, constricted at the summit beneath the expanded, pappiferous disk; pappus- bristles distinct; 2n=18, 20. Native of Europe, casually intr. in disturbed sites in our range, as in N.Y. and N.J. Aug.–Oct. (Cupularia g.; Dittrichia g.; Pulicaria g.)