164 YELLOW AND ORANGE 



ELECAMPANE: Horseheal: Yellow Starwort. 



Inula Helenium. 

 Composite Family. July — Sept. 



Plant 2-6 feet tall. Found in roadsides, 

 fields, damp pastures. Naturalized from Eu- 

 rope. Minnesota and Missouri east to Nova 

 Scotia, south to South Carolina. 

 Flower-heads — Yellow, solitary or few, 2-4 



inches across, rays long and narrow. 

 Leaves — Large, white-veined, rough above, 

 woolly beneath, toothed; lower leaves 

 stemmed, upper ones partly clasping 

 plant stem. 



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