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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Tussilago farfara   FAMILY Asteraceae   Go to FSUS key



SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tussilago farfara   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)

Tussilago farfara

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21 (2006)

Tussilago farfara

 

COMMON NAME:
Coltsfoot


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image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913    pnd_tufa_001_lvd

        

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm170326_238

March    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Flower heads borne singly, erect at flowering, nodding in fruit, per Flora of North America.

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm170326_239

March    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm170326_241

March    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Phyllaries erect, distinct, lance-linear to linear, subequal, margins scarious, per Flora of North America.

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm170326_292

March    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Basal leaves usually develop after flowers, per Flora of North America.

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm170406_457

March    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Cauline leaves lance-ovate to linear, bractlike or scale-like, per Flora of North America.

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_tussilago_farfara_23

March        

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

Richard and Teresa Ware    rtw_tussilago_farfara_25

March        

Ray florets female. Disk florets few, functionally male, per Flora of China.

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

Ben Geer Keys    bgk1563_a

April        

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm060710_008

July    Tucker County    WV

Monongahela National Forest

Introduced into the Northeast, this has spread rapidly southward, per Weakley's Flora (2012).

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm070702_162

July    Pocahontas County    WV

Cranberry Glades Botanical Area

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm070702_173

July    Pocahontas County    WV

The Falls of Hill Creek

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm160818_636

August    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm160818_637

August    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm160818_638

August    Polk County    NC

Pearson's Falls

Basal leaf blades palmately nerved, orbiculate to polygonal or lobed, per Flora of North America.

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm130906_051

September    Washington County    ME

Leaves heart-shaped to nearly round, shallowly lobed, long-petioled, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm130906_052

September    Washington County    ME

Ancient Greeks boiled the leaves with honey to make cough syrup, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains (Smith, 1998).

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm130906_053

September    Washington County    ME

Leaves densely white-hairy beneath, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians (Horn, Cathcart, Hemmerly, & Duhl, 2005).

image of Tussilago farfara, Coltsfoot

JK Marlow    jkm130906_055

September    Washington County    ME

 

 

WEAKLEY'S FLORA OF THE SOUTHEASTERN US (4/24/22):
Tussilago farfara   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Tussilago farfara   FAMILY Asteraceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH Floristic Synthesis of North America. BONAP (Kartesz, 2021)
Tussilago farfara

SYNONYMOUS WITH Flora of North America north of Mexico, vol. 19-20-21
Tussilago farfara

 

Find by SCIENTIFIC NAME:

1563

Forb
Perennial

Habitat: Roadsides, especially gravelly or shaly roadbanks or ditches, streamside gravel bars, disturbed ground, per Weakley's Flora

Non-native: Eurasia

Common in NC Mountains (rare elsewhere in GA-NC-SC)

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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

 

LEAVES:
Simple
Basal and alternate (basal usually developing after flowers)

FLOWER:
Spring/Summer
Rays: Yellow
Disc: Yellow
Inferior ovary
Disc flowers functionally staminate/ Ray flowers pistillate & fertile

FRUIT:
Spring/Summer

 

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