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Colt's-foot

Tussilago farfara

11,051Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan16
Feb364
Mar2,572
Apr2,366
May989
Jun900
Jul920
Aug939
Sep532
Oct312
Nov141
Dec37

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England723
2Sefton England490
3Argyll and Bute Scotland270
4Highland Scotland245
5City of Edinburgh Scotland231
6North Yorkshire England212
7Cambridgeshire England202
8Cumbria England175
9Sheffield England162
10St. Helens England147
11Norfolk England144
12Powys Wales133
13Fife Scotland117
14Oxfordshire England104
15Liverpool England103
7,299 England1,636 Scotland341 Wales138 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,051
Peak month
March
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Tussilago farfara
Group
Flowering plants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
42,985
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Asterales
Family
Asteraceae
Genus
Tussilago
Name with authority
Tussilago farfara L.
Contributing datasets
53

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q26302 · GBIF 3149879