Common Butterbur
Petasites hybridus (L.) G.Gaertn., B.Mey. & Scherb.
- light
- —
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 99 cm
- wide
- 3.0 m
Asteraceae
Also called Butterbur, Butterfly dock
Formerly Cineraria hybrida, Tussilago hybrida
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Europe to N. Iran, AlgeriaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 99 cmRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- PinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Pétasite hybride, Herbe aux chapeaux, Grand pétasite
- German
- Rote Pestwurz, Gewöhnliche Pestwurz, Bach-Pestwurz
- Dutch
- Groot hoefblad, groot hoefblad
- root
- PETHYB, Alan mawr
- Finnish
- Etelänruttojuuri, etelänruttojuuri
- Russian
- Белокопытник гибридный
- Polish
- Lepiężnik różowy
- Czech
- devětsil lékařský
- Swedish
- Pestskråp
- Danish
- Rød hestehov
- Norwegian Bokmål
- legepestrot
- Lithuanian
- Plačialapis šaukštis
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Petasites hybridus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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