I have been eyeing roadside patches of what I thought was 'this' - superficially similar leaves, but larger, to put in my wild patch. It was only when I recently found some Tussilago/Colt'sfoot in carpark gravel, flowering pristinely and yellowly in the first spring sunshine - a few roots have subsequently taken, leaves appeared - that I realised I had been conflating it with the larger relation, Petasites (Butterbur group)
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I have been eyeing roadside patches of what I thought was 'this' - superficially similar leaves, but larger, to put in my wild patch. It was only when I recently found some Tussilago/Colt'sfoot in carpark gravel, flowering pristinely and yellowly in the first spring sunshine - a few roots have subsequently taken, leaves appeared - that I realised I had been conflating it with the larger relation, Petasites (Butterbur group)
[http://www.wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/H/Heliotrope(Winter)/Heliotrope(Winter).htm]
which has larger leaves and mauve flowers
]http://www.wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/H/Heliotrope%28Winter%29/Heliotrope%28Winter%29.htm]
Silly me, but Tussilago will do until I find a rhizome or two of Petasites.
I think one or the other will do for me. I'd like to have some garden left for other plants
In the sticks near Peterborough
I love butterbur - there was a big bank of it growing wild near the village school I attended as a child
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.