Tussilago farfara Linnaeus 1753 (Family Asteraceae)


Plant

Leaf

Flower

Fruit

Height: 7-25cm
Arbuscular Mycorrhizal
Perennial, Rhizomatous
Hermaphrodite, Flowering February - May (Earliest: 10.2)

Habitat:
Meadows

Spruce Forest Edge
Seed Dispersal: Wind
Pollination:
Many Apidae

Pachyneuron formosum

Several Nymphalidae

Several Muscidae

Several Syrphidae

Several Calliphoridae

Several Ephydridae

Scaptomyza graminum

Scaptomyza pallida

Egle ciliata

Phorbia nuceicornis

Scathophaga furcata

Scathophaga stercoraria

Macquartia dispar

Tachina ursina

Sepsis fulgens

Sepsis punctum

Sapromyza basalis

Anevrina urbana

Bradysia nitidicollis

Meligethes ovatus

Psylliodes picinus
Parasites:
Asteroma impressum

Scrobipalpa acuminatella Larva
(Leaf Miner)

Platyptilia gonodactyla

Phytomyza tussilaginis

Acidia cognata

Ecological Flora of the British Isles
Skye Flora: Coltsfoot


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