Leuzea
(named in honour of De Leuze, a friend of De Candolle). SYN. Rhacoma. ORD. Compositoe. A genus comprising three species of hardy herbaceous perennials, one broadly dispersed through the western region of the Mediterranean, another from Portugal, and the third from Spain. Flower-heads purplish, large; involucre ovoid or sub-globose, shining; receptacle densely subpaleaceous, setose. Leaves alternate or radical, dentate or pinnatifid, hoary-tomentose underneath. Only one species-L. conifera-is in cultivation. This is a pretty, rather strong-growing, interesting plant. It requires an ordinary garden soil, and may be increased by seeds, or by divisions of the plants, in spring.
L. conifera (cone-bearing). fl.-heads purple; involucre scaly, glabrous. July. l. lanceolate. Stem simple, one-headed. h. 9in. South Europe, 1683.