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Weed Science & Agronomy
INRA-Dijon

Bayer Code : tusfa

Scientific name: Tussilago farfara L.

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Classification: Compositae, Dicotyledonous

Common name: colt's-foot

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Name per country: DE : Huflattich ; ES : tusilago ; FR : tussilage ; IT : tossilaggine comune ; PT : unha-de-asno ; EN : colt's-foot ; NL : klein hoefblad, NL : paardenhoef ; DK : folfod

Biological type: Perennial with rhizomes

Seed snapshot Seed:

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Seedling snapshotSeedling snapshot Seedling:

- Cotyledons elliptic or ovate, rounded tip, more or less stalked.

- Leaves entire, ovate or deltoid, irregularly dentate.

Adult plant snapshotAdult plant snapshot Adult plant:

- Height: 10-20 cm.

- Stem erect, felted, with ovate, lanceolate, obtuse, appressed and semi-amplexicaul scales.

- Leaves appear after flowers on special stems, all radical, at first often very large, stalked, suborbicular, toothed, green above, white or greyish and felted beneath; later cordate base, long-stalked, densely white-felted beneath.

- Flowers yellow in erect heads terminal on flowering shoots, ray -florets ligulate exceeding the disk-florets.

- Fruits : brown achenes with a silky white pappus circa 3 times longer than the achene.

- Plant used against coughs.

- Biological type: perennial with rhizomes.

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