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| + | Tussilago farfara, Linn. Coltsfoot. Resembles the dandelion in having scapes bearing solitary yellow fl.-heads composed of rays, but the scapes are scaly and the heads are smaller, lighter colored and borne in early spring before the main crop of dandelions. After the fls. have lost their beauty, the lvs. appear; they are heart-shaped and rounded at first, but as they grow they become more and more angled. They are covered with a soft cottony matting which diminishes toward the end of the season. It grows naturally in moist places and thrives on steep raw banks in the stiffest clay. Spreads rapidly by underground sts. Flowers in March. Native to Eu., India, and N. W. Asia. Naturalized in Amer. |
| − | Tussilago farfara, Linn. Coltsfoot. Resembles the dandelion in having scapes bearing solitary yellow fl.-heads composed of rays, but the scapes are scaly and the heads are smaller, lighter colored and borne in early spring before the main crop of dandelions. After the fls. have lost their beauty, the lvs. appear; they are heart-shaped and rounded at first, but as they grow they become more and more angled. They are covered with a soft cottony matting which diminishes toward the end of the season. It grows naturally in moist places and thrives on steep raw banks in the stiffest clay. Spreads rapidly by underground sts. Flowers in March. Native to Eu., India, and N. W. Asia. Naturalized in Amer. Gn. 23, p. 113. | |
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| − | Var. variegata, Hort., has lvs. margined and more or less blotched with white or yellow. Gn. 37, p. 435. Lowe 56.—More commonly cult. than the type. | + | Var. variegata, Hort., has lvs. margined and more or less blotched with white or yellow.—More commonly cult. than the type. |
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