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Petasites hybridus
butterbur
Other common names
batter dockbog rhubarb
see morebutter dock
cleats
cleets
flea dock
gallon
oxwort
pestilence wort
poison rhubarb
son-before-the-father
umbrella leaf
water docken
Botanical details
- Family
- Asteraceae
- Native to the UK
- No
- Potentially harmful
- Genus
Petasites
- Genus description
Petasites are perennial plants, usually large, with thick rhizomes or stems. Leaves are often very large and either heart-shaped or kidney-shaded. Scapes or stems many-headed, with any leaves usually reduced to scales. Flowers dioecious in usually rayless heads, purple or white, rarely yellowish, borne in panicles or racemes at the ends of the scapes
- Name status
Correct
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