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coltsfoot

A perennial with long whitish rhizomes (Tussilago farfara), native to Europe, W and N Asia, and N Africa; leaves all basal, up to 30 cm/12 in across, rounded to shallowly lobed, white-felted beneath; flower-heads bright yellow, solitary on stems to 15 cm/6 in, appearing before the leaves. It is an old herbal medicine for chest complaints. (Family: Compositae.)

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Tussilago
Species: T. farfara
Binomial name
Tussilago farfara
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