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§1 Plant
Inula helenium L.
vernacular elecampane inula — species · Asteraceae
§2Habit & range
Habit and range
- Growth habit
- Forb/herb
- Duration
- Perennial
- Group
- Dicot
- Family
- Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
- Genus
- Inula
§2a
Native status, by region
- CAN Canada Introduced
- L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
§2b
County-level range
· 275 counties across 22 states/territories§3Cultivation
No cultivation specs.
USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.
§4Counties, by state
Recorded in 275 counties across 22 states/territories.
Delaware view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Illinois view state ↗ 9 I ▾
Indiana view state ↗ 23 I ▾
- Boone 18011
- Carroll 18015
- DeKalb 18033
- Elkhart 18039
- Henry 18065
- Howard 18067
- Huntington 18069
- Jefferson 18077
- Johnson 18081
- Lagrange 18087
- Marion 18097
- Monroe 18105
- Montgomery 18107
- Noble 18113
- Parke 18121
- Porter 18127
- Putnam 18133
- St. Joseph 18141
- Steuben 18151
- Washington 18175
- Wayne 18177
- Wells 18179
- Whitley 18183
Kansas view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Kentucky view state ↗ 5 I ▾
Maine view state ↗ 11 I ▾
Massachusetts view state ↗ 14 I ▾
Michigan view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Alcona 26001
- Allegan 26005
- Antrim 26009
- Benzie 26019
- Berrien 26021
- Branch 26023
- Calhoun 26025
- Charlevoix 26029
- Cheboygan 26031
- Chippewa 26033
- Eaton 26045
- Gratiot 26057
- Ingham 26065
- Ionia 26067
- Kalamazoo 26077
- Kent 26081
- Lapeer 26087
- Lenawee 26091
- Macomb 26099
- Menominee 26109
- Monroe 26115
- Oakland 26125
- Saginaw 26145
- Sanilac 26151
- Shiawassee 26155
- St. Clair 26147
- St. Joseph 26149
- Washtenaw 26161
- Wayne 26163
Minnesota view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Missouri view state ↗ 4 I ▾
New Hampshire view state ↗ 9 I ▾
New Jersey view state ↗ 8 I ▾
New York view state ↗ 29 I ▾
- Albany 36001
- Bronx 36005
- Cattaraugus 36009
- Columbia 36021
- Delaware 36025
- Erie 36029
- Essex 36031
- Kings 36047
- Lewis 36049
- Madison 36053
- Monroe 36055
- Nassau 36059
- New York 36061
- Onondaga 36067
- Orange 36071
- Oswego 36075
- Otsego 36077
- Queens 36081
- Rensselaer 36083
- Richmond 36085
- Saratoga 36091
- St. Lawrence 36089
- Tioga 36107
- Tompkins 36109
- Ulster 36111
- Warren 36113
- Wayne 36117
- Westchester 36119
- Yates 36123
North Carolina view state ↗ 1 I ▾
Ohio view state ↗ 50 I ▾
- Ashland 39005
- Ashtabula 39007
- Auglaize 39011
- Belmont 39013
- Butler 39017
- Carroll 39019
- Clinton 39027
- Coshocton 39031
- Crawford 39033
- Cuyahoga 39035
- Darke 39037
- Defiance 39039
- Fairfield 39045
- Franklin 39049
- Fulton 39051
- Geauga 39055
- Hamilton 39061
- Hancock 39063
- Highland 39071
- Holmes 39075
- Huron 39077
- Jefferson 39081
- Knox 39083
- Lake 39085
- Licking 39089
- Logan 39091
- Lorain 39093
- Lucas 39095
- Madison 39097
- Mahoning 39099
- Medina 39103
- Meigs 39105
- Miami 39109
- Monroe 39111
- Morgan 39115
- Morrow 39117
- Perry 39127
- Portage 39133
- Putnam 39137
- Richland 39139
- Seneca 39147
- Shelby 39149
- Stark 39151
- Summit 39153
- Trumbull 39155
- Tuscarawas 39157
- Union 39159
- Van Wert 39161
- Wayne 39169
- Williams 39171
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 37 I ▾
- Allegheny 42003
- Beaver 42007
- Bedford 42009
- Blair 42013
- Bradford 42015
- Bucks 42017
- Butler 42019
- Cambria 42021
- Centre 42027
- Chester 42029
- Clearfield 42033
- Crawford 42039
- Cumberland 42041
- Erie 42049
- Huntingdon 42061
- Jefferson 42065
- Lackawanna 42069
- Lancaster 42071
- Lawrence 42073
- Lehigh 42077
- Luzerne 42079
- McKean 42083
- Mercer 42085
- Monroe 42089
- Montgomery 42091
- Montour 42093
- Northampton 42095
- Philadelphia 42101
- Potter 42105
- Sullivan 42113
- Susquehanna 42115
- Tioga 42117
- Warren 42123
- Washington 42125
- Wayne 42127
- Westmoreland 42129
- Wyoming 42131
Rhode Island view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Tennessee view state ↗ 2 I ▾
Vermont view state ↗ 12 I ▾
Virginia view state ↗ 8 I ▾
West Virginia view state ↗ 15 I ▾
Wisconsin view state ↗ 3 I ▾
§5Sources & provenance
USDA PLANTS
Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.
plants.usda.gov/INHE ↗GBIF Backbone
Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.
gbif.org/species/3148340 ↗Record version
Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:
usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26
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