Inula racemosa | BotanAI

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Inula racemosa, photographed by Paulmathi Vinod — fig. a Paulmathi Vinod, CC BY 4.0 / 2015-06-16 / obs. 138738337

Inula racemosa, photographed by Floris Vanderhaeghe — fig. b Floris Vanderhaeghe, CC0 1.0 / obs. 147793100

Inula racemosa, photographed by Hume Douglas — fig. c Hume Douglas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 90361259

Inula racemosa, photographed by user12 — fig. e user12, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152321722

Inula racemosa, photographed by Tom Norton — fig. f Tom Norton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 53188638

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 8 botanical countries

Native distribution of Inula racemosa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.

Region	TDWG code	Continent
Afghanistan	AFG	ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central	CHN
China South-Central	CHC
Tibet	CHT
Xinjiang	CHX
Nepal	NEP	ASIA-TROPICAL
Pakistan	PAK
West Himalaya	WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Flowering 39 in flower of 45 examined

100%

82%

Proportion of examined Inula racemosa in flower, by month
Month	In flower	Examined	Share	95% interval
Jan	0	0	too few examined
Feb	0	0	too few examined
Mar	0	0	too few examined
Apr	0	0	too few examined
May	0	0	too few examined
Jun	1	2	too few examined
Jul	2	3	too few examined
Aug	25	25	100%	87% to 100%
Sep	9	11	82%	52% to 95%
Oct	2	4	too few examined
Nov	0	0	too few examined
Dec	0	0	too few examined

Peak flowering in Aug. Each bar is the share of Inula racemosa observations in which someone actually recorded the reproductive state and found the plant in flower, not the raw number of flowering records. That distinction matters: people observe plants far more in spring than in winter, so a bare count of flowering records partly measures when people go outside. Dividing by the number examined removes that. 39 of 45 examined observations were in flower, every one of them research grade. The whisker on each bar is a 95% Wilson interval. 10 months have fewer than 5 examined observations, so no proportion is drawn for them. This is still a global aggregate and not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres. Where a species has fewer than 30 flowering records we do not draw this chart at all. Computed from 10.15468/dl.cgje2x.

Also published as 1 synonym

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

Inula royleana C.B.Clarke

Sourcesevery claim on this page

World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.