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Colts-foot
Tussilago farfara
Importance
Widespread, likes heavy damp soils. A local problem.
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1. The plant generally grows from root stocks, but seedlings do occur. The first leaves are broad, woolly or hairy and toothed on the margins.
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2. Following leaves are heart-shaped, angular, large and have downy hairs beneath.
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3. A prostrate perennial which sends up short thick flowering stems some six inches tall, before leaves appear in the early spring.
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