Giant Fleabane
Inula magnifica
Asteraceae
Growth habit
Herbaceous
Perennation
Long-lived polycarpic perennial
Native distribution
Caucasus
Location
Source of plant
Forestfarm Nursery
Description
Perennial herb or subshrub to 2m; stem robust, striate, villous, black-purple. Leaves to 25x6cm, eilliptic-ovate, dentate, dark green, glabrous above, villous beneath, lower petiolate, upper sessile. Capitula radiate, in a corymb; involucre to 6cm diameter, campanulate; phyllaries to 5 cm, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; ray florets to 2cm. Fruit 2-5mm, glabrous or variously hairy.
USDA Hardiness Zone
6