Tussilago farfara, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 186

1. T. farfara L. , Sp. Pl. 865 (1753).

Rhizomes long, whitish, scaly, bearing rosettes of leaves. Leaves 1O-2O(-3O) cm, suborbicular, shallowly sinuately lobed and irregularly denticulate, cordate at base, green but thinly fioccose above when young, persistently whitish-lanate beneath; petiole sulcate on adaxial surface. Scapes 4-15 cm, elongating in fruit, axillary, with numerous purplish scales, fioccose, appearing before the leaves, erect in bud, nodding after anthesis. Involucre c. 10 mm; bracts numerous, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, purplish and with a scarious margin. Achenes c. 3 mm. 2л = 60. Damp places,particularly on clay soils. Almost throughout Europe. All except Az BI Cr Lu.