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Elecampane
3 August 2025
Inula helenium
89% certain
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Origin
- Europe and western Asia
- Bloom season
- Mid to late summer
- Colors
- yellow
- Habitat
- Damp meadows, waysides, and old physic gardens
- Symbolism
- Tears, and a medicine chest in the hedge
A shaggy yellow disk, sometimes with thin rays, on a tall, hairy stem that likes wet ground.
Care. Plant in sun or bright shade with moist soil; it is a perennial that asks for little once established.
A note. Helen of Troy is in the scientific name; medieval writers said the plant sprang from her tears.
Or perhaps
- Golden shower — 8%
- Dandelion — 7%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Aug 3, 2025, 3:38 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 6.86mm f/1.78
- Focal length
- 6.9mm
- Aperture
- f/1.8
- Shutter
- 1/836s
- ISO
- 64
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.6676° N, 74.0986° W
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