page_title: Hasteola suaveolens
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Hasteola suaveolens / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Senecio suaveolens (L.) Elliott (1823) (syn. Hasteola suaveolens (L.) Pojark.) - false Indian plantain
context_page_description: Hasteola suaveolens, known by the common names false Indian plantain and sweet scented Indian plantain, is a perennial forb native to the northeastern and north-central United States. It is found from Massachusetts south to Virginia and North Carolina, and west as far as Minnesota and Minnesota and Missouri.
context_section_description: Hasteola suaveolens is a perennial  herb sometimes as much as 240 cm (8 feet) tall, hairless throughout, unbranched below the inflorescence. The spearhead shaped leaves are 10 to 25 cm (4 to 10 in) long and 5 to 15 cm (2 to 6 in) wide with serrated (toothed) edges. The plant flowers in late summer or early fall. The inflorescence is one or several roughly flat topped clusters of several to many flower heads consisting entirely of 18–55 white or very pale yellow disc florets, but no ray florets. The fruit is a cypsela with a pappus of white bristles.
caption: Botanical illustration of Synosma suaveolens (1913)
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