Plants : AsteraceaeFerns and Flowering Plants

Tussilago farfara L.

Colt's-foot

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Tussilago farfara

Description: A common species of disturbed soils, waste tips etc and one of our earliest plants to flower (March). The leaves follow after the flowers have finished and gone to seed.

All names: Tussilago farfara L.

Distribution Map from NBN: Tussilago farfara at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Tussilago farfara at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.

 Hackney, P., 2026. Tussilago farfara. L.. [In] Flora of Northern Ireland.
https://habitas.org/flora/species.php?item=4386. Accessed on 2026-11-02.