helenium

From the genus name.

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helenium (plural heleniums)

Any of various flowering plants, of the genus Helenium, the dried leaves of which were once used to make a form of snuff.
- 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 16:
  Amongst the herbs to be administered when the charm was sung over him were a yew-berry, lupin, helenium, marsh mallow, dock elder, wormwood and strawberry leaves.
- 2016, Nancy J. Ondra, The Perennial Matchmaker: Create Amazing Combinations with Your Favorite Perennials:
  Heleniums mostly have an upright habit, though the taller ones may need staking in spring or cutting back by half in early summer to stay that way.

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