This cultivated species ("elecampane") was apparently established in the past as an occasional escape from cultivation, but it has not been collected since 1940. It has ancient medicinal uses, with camphoraceous chemistry somewhat like the distantly allied genus Pluchea but much more pleasant; 2n = 20 in both (FNA 20). [Pluchea was separated into tribe Plucheae by FNA, and the remaining traditional Inuleae were treated as Gnaphalieae.]