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Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Tussilago in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Tussilago (Latin, tussis, cough, and ago, referring to the medicinal use of the lvs.). Compositae. Here belongs the Coltsfoot, the flowers of which look much like the dandelion; the leaves are large and make an attractive low covering for rough banks. Acaulescent perennial herb more or less white-tomentose: fls. in a dense head on a scaly scape, before the lvs. of the season; tubular and ray-fls. about in equal numbers; the rays pistillate and fertile and in several rows; disk-florets sterile: receptacle flat; involucre campanulate or cylindrical, the scales in a single series: achene narrow, with soft capillary pappus.—One species. T. fragrans - Petasites. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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