Description: Please note: The free shipping on this item means it will be sent as a letter without tracking. They generally arrive within 5 business days(in the U.S.) but can sometimes take up to 10. Orders with 5 or more packets of any of the seeds we sell with free shipping will get a free upgrade to tracked shipping(Domestic Only). Common Name: elecampane Type: Herbaceous perennialFamily: AsteraceaeNative Range: EurasiaZone: 3 to 7Height: 3.00 to 6.00 feetSpread: 2.00 to 3.00 feetBloom Time: July to SeptemberBloom Description: YellowSun: Full sun to part shadeWater: MediumMaintenance: LowFlower: Showy Easily grown in moist, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Plant about 3' apart. Tolerates wide variety of soils from sandy to clay. Best in cool summer climates. Taller plants may need support, particularly in areas exposed to wind. Plants depreciate rapidly after flowering. Propagate by seed or division. Inula helenium, commonly called elecampane, is a rhizomatous, sunflower-like composite of the aster family that is native to Europe and northern Asia, but has naturalized in fields, clearings, disturbed sites, roadsides and waste places in parts of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to Minnesota south to North Carolina and Missouri. It typically grows to 3-6' tall. It is noted for having coarse, toothed, rough-hairy leaves (thin hairy above and velvet-hairy beneath). Ovate-elliptic basal leaves typically grow to 1-2' long on petioles extending to as much as 1' long. Ovate-lanceolate stem leaves are much shorter and sessile, decreasing in size from the bottom to the top of the central rigid hairy stalk. Sunflower-like flowers (2-3" diameter), each subtended by broad floral bracts, feature numerous very thin, scraggly yellow rays which surround a center disk of darker yellow tubular flowers. Flowers bloom July-September. This plant has a long and interesting history as a medicinal herb wherein the rhizomes and roots were at one point used in a large variety of medical applications, primarily in the treatment of a large number of respiratory-type ailments. The root is used today in France and Switzerland as a flavoring for absinthe. ProblemsNo serious insect or disease problems. UsesCottage gardens. Wildflower gardens. Borders. Herb gardens.
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Location: Mesa, Arizona
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