Elecampane – Inula helenium

Description

Since Anglo Saxon times and beyond  Elecampane with its yellow sunflowers in summer above broad foliage, was deeply revered as a magical plant as well extremely important medicinally.  Though a naturalised alien, one comes across stands in all kinds of wild places, such as the coast of Pembrokeshire or the Scottish Islands where it must have been for centuries if not millennia.