| Scientific Name: | Inula helenium |
| Common Name: | elecampane |
| Family Name: | Asteraceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Herbaceous perennial |
| Mature Size: | 0.7 - 1.3m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Medicinal plant, Summer interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Basal, Soft flexible, Pubescent, Tomentose, Elliptic, Ovate, Serrate, Undulate (wavy) |
| Flowers: | Head (capitulum), Yellow, Jun-Jul |
| Fruit: | Cypsela (achene + calyx), Brown, Silver, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves on stem alternate, petiolate or sessile and clasping, serrate, woolly undersides, large (up to 30cm long x 12cm wide); flower heads ~7cm wide with long, narrow, yellow ray floret corollas (50-100 per head). | |