Plants of USA and Canada

Scientific or common name:

Petasites hybridus (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.


ASTERACEAE Family selection - Aster family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

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Name: Petasites hybridus (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb. Taxon selection
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Common names

US name U.S. name: Pestilence wort
en English name: bog-rhubarb
English name: butterbur
Italian name: Farfaraccio maggiore
German name: gewöhnliche Pestwurz

Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Perennial
 

Synonyms:
= Petasites officinalis Moench
= Petasites vulgaris Hill



TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Asteridae
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Genus: Petasites
Species:


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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 3: 532.

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
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Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Photo by Leo Michels. Usage: Public Domain

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Sandro Maggia

Petasites hybridus
Petasites hybridus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani


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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CT, DE, IL, MA, MI, NJ, NY, OH, PA, WA, WV)

Distributional map for Petasites hybridus (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.
Map for Petasites hybridus (L.) G. Gaertn., B. Mey. & Scherb.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA



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