Family: Asteraceae (Asteraceae)
Flowering time: July–September
Size: 30–120 cm
Habitat: lawns, pastures, rocky and shrubby places and light forests and forest edges
Common elecampane (Inula conyza) is a noticeable plant that usually sends up a tuft of upright stems. These are branched in the upper part and leafy with alternately arranged ovate-lanceolate leaves, which are woolly-haired beneath. In the upper, branched part of the stem, numerous, 5 to 10 mm wide heads form a composite inflorescence. For the heads of common elecampane it is characteristic that ligulate flowers are absent, and the outer involucral leaves are turned outward.
Common elecampane grows on barren soils from the lowlands to the mid-mountains. With the exception of the high mountains, it is widespread practically throughout Slovenia, but it does not occur in large numbers anywhere.
