Botanical name: Inula obtusifolia    Family: Asteraceae (Sunflower family)
Synonyms: Inula obtusifolia var. obtusifolia , Inula thomsonii

Bluntleaf 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. Bluntleaf 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.

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