Hooker's Fleabane - Inula hookeri
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Species Description
Widely grown and may escape and become naturalised.
Stace 4:
Inula hookeri C.B. Clarke - Hooker's Fleabane.
Stems erect, to 60cm, hairy; stem-leaves lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, cuneate at base, hairy; capitula few, about 5-8cm across (including ligules); (2n=20). Neophyte-naturalised; roadsides, quarries and open woodland; Britain North from Salop, Mid West Yorkshire since 1986; Himalayas.
Key:
- Ligules conspicuous, >1cm; capitula 1-about 5 on each stem
- Phyllaries long-subulate, spreading from capitulum
- Stems and both leaf surfaces with only long eglandular hairs, but leaf-margins with glandular teeth