Petasites

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Petasites
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Petasites hybridus
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Petasites

Synonyms[1]

Nardosmia Cass.

Petasites is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower family, Asteraceae, that are commonly referred to as butterburs[2][3][4] and coltsfoots.[5]

Species

Accepted species[1][6]
  1. Petasites albus White Butterbur - Europe, Algeria, Turkey, Caucasus, India
  2. Petasites fominii - Republic of Georgia
  3. Petasites formosanus - Taiwan
  4. Petasites frigidus Arctic Butterbur or Arctic Sweet Coltsfoot - Scandinavia, Mongolia, Canada, northern USA
  5. Petasites hybridus Common Butterbur - Europe, Mediterranean
  6. Petasites japonicus Giant Butterbur, or Fuki - China, Japan, Korea
  7. Petasites kablikianus - southeastern Europe from Poland to Albania
  8. Petasites kamengicus - Arunachal Pradesh
  9. Petasites paradoxus - central + southwestern Europe from Spain to Poland
  10. Petasites pyrenaicus from Azores to Ireland + Tunisia
  11. Petasites radiatus - Mongolia
  12. Petasites rubellus - Mongolia, Manchuria, Korea
  13. Petasites sibiricus - Siberia
  14. Petasites spurius - Europe, Siberia, Caucasus, Central Asia
  15. Petasites tatewakianus - Siberia, Russian Far East, northeastern China
  16. Petasites tricholobus - China, Vietnam, Himalayas
  17. Petasites versipilus - Sichuan, Yunnan
Species of hybrid origin[1]
  • Petasites × vitifolius
Species formerly included[1]

Petasites glacialis (Ledeb.) Polunin - Endocellion glaciale (Ledeb.) Toman

Other species:

Petasites fragrans (Vill.) C.Presl[7][8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Flann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist Archived 2014-12-11 at Archive.is
  2. Stace, C. A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521707725.
  3. Miller, Philip. 1754. Gardeners Dictionary...Abridged...fourth edition page 1056.
  4. Tropicos, Petasites Mill.
  5. Petasites. Flora of North America. Volume 20, Page 635. efloras.org.
  6. "Search results — The Plant List". theplantlist.org.
  7. Clapham, A.R., Tutin, T.G. and Warburg. 1968. Excursion Flora of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css" />ISBN 0-521-04656-4
  8. Parnell, J. and Curtis, T. 2012. Webb's An Irish Flora. Cork University Press. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css" />ISBN 978-185918-4783