Tussilago farfaraL.

colt's-foot

WFO wfo-0000117140 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Tussilago farfara, photographed by Yurii Basov
fig. a Yurii Basov, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-09 / obs. 204659857
Tussilago farfara, photographed by Vladimir Atachkin
fig. b Vladimir Atachkin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205071433
Tussilago farfara, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. c Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205695689
Tussilago farfara, photographed by aga_l_
fig. d aga_l_, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205231038
Tussilago farfara, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. e Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205682751
Tussilago farfara, photographed by Pavel Kacl
fig. f Pavel Kacl, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 205847868
Tussilago farfara, photographed by Gus
fig. g Gus, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 204481371
Tussilago farfara, photographed by Piermario Maculan
fig. h Piermario Maculan, CC0 1.0 / obs. 204435223

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Flowering n = 12,941 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 12,941 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 4 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cineraria farfara (L.) Bernh.
  • Farfara radiata Gilib.
  • Tussilago alpestris Hegetschw.
  • Tussilago umbertina Borbás

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.