Tussilago
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Tussilago is a genus of plants. T. farfara is the coltsfoot. Many of the species are often placed in other genera, such as Homogyne, Petasites or Adenostyleswp.
Read about Tussilago in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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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
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Species
Tussilago alpina
Tussilago farfara
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
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