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Petasites frigidus (Arctic Butterbur)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Petasites frigidus, the Arctic sweet coltsfoot or Arctic butterbur, is a species of Petasites native to Arctic to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in northern Europe, northern Asia and northern North America. While there is some disagreement, some sources identify five varieties of P. frigidus:
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Infraspecies

Petasites frigidus var. frigidus
Petasites frigidus var. palmatus (arctic sweet coltsfoot)
Petasites frigidus var. sagittatus (arrowleaf sweet coltsfoot)
Petasites frigidus var. sinuolatus
Petasites frigidus var. vitifolius

Attributes

Edible [1]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [2]  Herb
Usage [1]  A good ground cover for the wilder areas of the garden; The cotton-like seed heads have been used as a stuffing material for mattresses; The leaves have sometimes been folded into conical containers for collecting fruit; They have also been used to make a temporary funnel;
Height [1]  6 inches (0.15 m)
Width [1]  39 inches (1 m)
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Protected Areas

Predators

Microtus miurus (singing vole)[3]
Papilio machaon (Old World swallowtail)[4]
Phytomyza tussilaginis[5]

Providers

Pollinated by 
Bombus polaris (Bumblebee)[6]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

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♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Microtus miurus (Rodentia: Cricetidae), F. RUSSELL COLE AND DON E. WILSON, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 42(855):75–89 (2010)
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6Mosquin, T., and J. E. H. Martin. 1967. Observations on the pollination biology of plants on Melville Island, N.W.T., Canada. Canadian Field Naturalist 81:201-205.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0