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Tussilago farfara · wildlife atlas entry

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Tussilago farfara , commonly known as coltsfoot ,:770 is a plant in the groundsel tribe in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Europe and parts of western and central Asia. The name "tussilago" is derived from the Latin tussis , meaning cough, and ago , meaning to cast or to act on. It has had uses in traditional medicine, but the discovery of toxic pyrrolizidine alkaloids in the plant has resulted in liver health concerns. Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

colt's-foot — reference photo from iNaturalist — (c) snsergeevna, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

Record card

Scientific name	Tussilago farfara
Rank	species
Community observations	141,330 research-grade records on iNaturalist

Classification

kingdom Plantae › phylum Tracheophyta › class Magnoliopsida › order Asterales › family Asteraceae

Seen in the wild — community photographs

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2023-04-10 · Newmarket, ON L3Y 4V9, Canada
(c) Liana Kirkey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-05-09 · Ленинградская обл., Россия, 188932
(c) Kate Senatskaya, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-19 · Prince Edward Island, Canada
(c) Barry Cottam, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-19 · Prince Edward Island, Canada
(c) Barry Cottam, some rights reserved (CC BY) · cc-by

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-10-23 · Baden, Niederösterreich, Austria
(c) Martin A. Prinz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2025-09-27 · Ишимбайский р-н, Респ. Башкортостан, Россия
(c) Корепанова Татьяна, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

colt's-foot photograph by the iNaturalist community — 2026-06-09 · Печенгский р-н, Мурманская обл., Россия
(c) Elena Valova, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC) · cc-by-nc

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