Blunt-Leaf Inula is a perennial herb with a woody
rootstock, 12-30 cm high, rigidly flexuous, rough or hairy. Leaves are
oblong or ovate-oblong, rounded at base, blunt, obscurely finely
toothed, 3-5 cm, rigid, often scaberulous above, stalkless. Flower-heads
are yellow, at branch-ends, or few, hemispheric, very variable in
size, 1.3-3.5 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts are few; outer leafy; inner
linear or linear-lanceshaped, pointed, sometimes tapering, rigid,
velvet-hairy. Ray florets about 8 mm long; ligule shorter. Seedpods are
slender, up to 2.5 mm long, silky. Pappus pale-reddish. Blunt-Leaf Inula is
found in rock crevices, on dry cliffs, slopes, stony places, at
altitudes of 2000-4500 m in the Himalayas, from E Afghanistan to
Kashmir, and in C Asia. It is fairly common in Ladakh.
Flowering: June-August.
Identification credit: Saroj Kumar Kasaju
Photographed in Ladakh.
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