Colt's-foot
Tussilago farfara L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 13 cm
- wide
- —
Asteraceae
Also called Coltsfoot, Colts foot
Formerly Cineraria farfara, Petasites farfara, Tussilago alpestris, Tussilago generalis, and 3 more
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
- PerennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia to N. Africa and HimalayaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Height
- 10 cm to 15 cmRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 0.1–0.5 m; Wikipedia 5–15 cm
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- Tussilage commun, tussilage pas-d'âne, pas-d'âne
- Dutch
- Klein hoefblad, klein hoefblad
- German
- Huflattich
- root
- TUSFAR, Տատրակ, Hóffífill
- Polish
- Podbiał pospolity
- Finnish
- leskenlehti
- Russian
- Мать-и-мачеха
- Danish
- Følfod
- Albanian
- Thundërmushkë
- Norwegian Bokmål
- hestehov
- Swedish
- Tussilago, Hästhov
- Latvian
- Māllēpe, Parastā māllēpe
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
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Tussilago farfara (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.