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Petasites hybridus (Common Butterbur)

Synonyms: Petasites hybridus georgicus; Petasites major; Petasites officinalis var. hybridus; Petasites ovalis; Petasites reuterianus

Wikipedia Abstract

Petasites hybridus, the butterbur, is a herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to Europe and northern Asia.
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Infraspecies

Petasites hybridus hybridus
Petasites hybridus ochroleucus

Attributes

Flower Type [1]  Dioecious
Lifespan [1]  Perennial
Pollinators [1]  Insects, Lepidoptera
Structure [3]  Herb
Height [1]  39 inches (1 m)
Width [1]  9.84 feet (3 m)
Light Preference [2]  Mixed Sun/Shade
Soil Acidity [2]  Neutral
Soil Fertility [2]  Rich
Soil Moisture [2]  Damp
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Protected Areas

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Uredo campanulae[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 2ECOFACT 2a Technical Annex - Ellenberg’s indicator values for British Plants, M O Hill, J O Mountford, D B Roy & R G H Bunce (1999)
♦ 3Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 4Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 5Jorrit 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.
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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