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§1 Plant

Tussilago farfara L.

vernacular coltsfoot — species · Asteraceae


USDA
TUFA
GBIF
3149879
Rank
species
coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara)
Platephotograph · snsergeevnaCC BY-NC source · iNaturalist ↗

§2Habit & range

Habit and range

Growth habit
Forb/herb
Duration
Perennial
Group
Dicot
Family
Asteraceae Bercht. & J. Presl
Genus
Tussilago
§2a

Native status, by region

  • CAN Canada Introduced
  • L48 Lower 48 States Introduced
  • SPM St. Pierre & Miquelon Introduced
§2b

County-level range

· 336 counties across 18 states/territories
Legend Native · 0 Introduced · 336 Both · 0 Hover a county for detail.

§3Cultivation

No cultivation specs.

USDA has not characterised this taxon. Roughly four out of five plants in the database lack the detailed cultivation record present here — typically because they have not been the focus of NRCS Plant Materials work. Range and distribution data are unaffected.


§4Counties, by state

Recorded in 336 counties across 18 states/territories.

District of Columbia view state ↗ 1 I
Illinois view state ↗ 1 I
Kentucky view state ↗ 20 I
Maine view state ↗ 15 I
Massachusetts view state ↗ 13 I
Michigan view state ↗ 5 I
Minnesota view state ↗ 1 I
New Hampshire view state ↗ 7 I
New Jersey view state ↗ 15 I
New York view state ↗ 35 I
Ohio view state ↗ 39 I
Pennsylvania view state ↗ 60 I
Rhode Island view state ↗ 4 I
Tennessee view state ↗ 8 I
Vermont view state ↗ 13 I
Virginia view state ↗ 69 I
West Virginia view state ↗ 29 I
Wisconsin view state ↗ 1 I

§5Sources & provenance

USDA PLANTS

Symbol, taxonomy, distribution, cultivation specs, native status. Public domain.

plants.usda.gov/TUFA ↗

GBIF Backbone

Canonical taxonomic identity, synonym resolution, cross-refs. CC0.

gbif.org/species/3149879 ↗

Record version

Cached and built locally. Source version on this record:

usda-plants-mt-2026-05-26

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