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Taxon:  Tussilago farfara L.



Summary
Genus:
Tussilago
Family:
Asteraceae (alt. Compositae)
Subfamily:
Asteroideae
Tribe:
Senecioneae
Subtribe:
Tussilagininae
Nomen number:
40789
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:865. 1753
Verified:
04/30/1999 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Allan, H. H. B. et al. Flora of New Zealand. 1961- http://floraseries.landcareresearch.co.nz/pages/index.aspx
  3. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  4. CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables. 1974
  5. Clapham, A. R. et al. Flora of the British Isles ed. 2. 1962
  6. Czerepanov, S. K. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). 1995 Note: Cambridge University Press
  7. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  8. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  9. Erhardt, W. et al. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen. 2008
  10. Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource). http://www.emplantbase.org/home.html
  11. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  12. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Tussilago+farfara&quantity=1
  13. Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. 1963
  14. Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. 1984-
  15. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  16. Hara, H. et al. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. 1978-1982
  17. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 4:541.
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  19. Krasnoborov, I. M., ed. Flora of Siberia (English translation). 2000-
  20. Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants. 1985
  21. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  22. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  23. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:133.
  24. Parsa, A. Flore de l'Iran. 1943-1952
  25. Press, J. R. et al. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource). 2000- http://www.efloras.org/flora_page.aspx?flora_id=110
  26. Radford, A. E. et al., eds. Vascular flora of the southeastern United States. 1980-
  27. Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963-
  28. Scoggan, H. J. The flora of Canada, 4 vol. 1978-1979
  29. Sharma, B. D. et al., eds. Flora of India. 1993-
  30. Talbott, S. M. & Hughes, K. The health professional's guide to dietary supplements. 2007 168. Note: re. flavor additive
  31. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  32. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
coltsfoot –
German
Huflattich –
Portuguese (Brazil)
tussilagem –
unha-de-cavalo –
Swedish
hästhov –
Transcribed Chinese
kuan dong –
Transcribed Korean
gwandonghwa –
Distribution
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Morocco
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Russian Federation-Ciscaucasia [Ciscaucasia], Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Dagestan]
  • CHINA: China [Anhui, Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang, Yunnan, Zhejiang]
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia], Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia]
  • WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Cyprus, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (n. & w.)
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India [Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh], Nepal, Pakistan (n.)
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Faroe Islands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), North Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain, France (incl. Corsica)
Naturalized
Australasia
  • NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand
Europe
  • NORTHERN EUROPE: Iceland
Northern America
  • EASTERN CANADA: Canada [Quebec, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Newfoundland], St. Pierre and Miquelon
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia]
  • NORTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Washington]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia]
  • WESTERN CANADA: Canada [British Columbia]
Economic Uses
Bee plants
Food additives
flavoring (herb fide Guide Dietary Suppl) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –
Vertebrate poisons
mammals (fide Lampe & McCann) –
Weed
potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968) –


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