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    Eastern Caucasus.  Clump-forming Inula magnifica is a powerful presence in the summer garden.  Sturdy, six-foot bloom spikes rise from a mound of dark green foliage.  Individual leaves measure up to ten-inches long.  They are softly hairy on their undersides.  The flowers appear in corymbs of from 8 to 20 blooms and are especially large, measuring up to six inches wide.  Sometimes we find dark purple streaking rising up the flowering stems.  This is indeed a "magnificent" perennial to anchor the back of a perennial border.
  
    Late summer.  6 ft.  x 3 ft.
    
   Golden Yellow flowers  
     
    Sun     Zones 5, 6, 7, 8 |