Family |
Asteraceae
Inula salicina
Pall.
Inula salicina L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 882 (1753).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 374, Pl. CCIV, 1; 1983)
Accepted name: Pentanema salicinum (L.) D.Gut.Larr., Santos-Vicente, Anderb., E.Rico & M.M.Mart.Ort.; first published in Taxon 67: 159 (2018).
Description
Life-form & habit: Perennial, hairless or nearly so, 20–80 cm tall, with a stem bearing one flower head or a corymb of several heads.
Leaves: Firm, spreading, lanceolate and tapering to a long point, with rough, finely toothed margins; stalkless, the upper leaves heart-shaped at the base and clasping the stem.
Inflorescence & flowers: Heads on relatively long stalks. Outer bracts oblong-lanceolate, leafy and finely fringed, spreading or reflexed; inner bracts dry and membranous. Ray florets bright yellow, more than twice as long as the involucre.
Fruit: Hairless achenes.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: June–August.
Habitat & elevation: Wooded ground, more or less waterlogged.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Bcharre above Mar Sarkis and Ehden forest below the spring, on slopes watered by it. Mouterde also mentions a less precisely located Bcharre record.
Recorded locations: Ehden.
Native range: Altay, Amur, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, Central European Russia, Chita, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East European Russia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Krym, Kuril Is., Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, Mongolia, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Norway, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Siberia, Yakutiya.
Introduced into: Massachusetts, New York.
⚠️ Taxonomic note:
Kew treats Inula salicina L., the CMS and Mouterde name, as a synonym of Pentanema salicinum. Native and introduced ranges below follow that accepted taxon. No Syrian locality is listed in Mouterde’s account.