Skye Flora

Coltsfoot

Tussilago farfara

 

Tussilago farfara

Photo © Carl Farmer
22 Feb 2003 Portree
Main flowerhead c 25 mm diameter

Common on bare damp ground beside burns and tracks, also in short grass of road verges.

Flowerhead c 15-35 mm diameter

Skye ID: Flowering shoots unmistakeable with scales up stem.  Leaves on their own could only be confused with the much larger Butterbur, but are white-felted beneath unlike that species.

Other features: One of the earliest plants to flower.  The leaves only begin to appear after the flowers are out.

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Tussilago farfara

Photo © Carl Farmer
22 Feb 2003 Portree
 

    

 

Stems are upright when flowering (upper left), then droop after flowering (lower left), then upright again when the seedheads form (below)

 

 

Tussilago farfara

Photo © Carl Farmer
27 Apr 2002 Portree
   
Tussilago farfara

Photo © Carl Farmer
3 May 2002 Portree

  
 
 
Tussilago farfara

Photo © Carl Farmer
3 May 2002 Portree
 

   Tussilago farfara

Photo © Carl Farmer
20 Sep 2001 Portree
 
Young leaves, appearing soon after the flowers fade   By autumn the leaves have grown very large and coarse

 

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