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  1. Life
  2. Plants
  3. Vascular Plants
  4. Dicots
  5. Sunflowers, Bellflowers, Fanflowers, and Allies
  6. Sunflower Family
  7. Tussilagininae
  8. Butterburs

genus

Butterburs

Petasites

Traits
Includes
1 native 3 introduced
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Arctic Butterbur native
  • Common Butterbur introduced
  • White Butterbur
  • Giant Butterbur introduced
  • Winter Heliotrope present
  • Petasites formosanus
  • Petasites kablikianus

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Key traits

Layer
Herbaceous plants
Plant type
Perennial Wildflower

From USDA PLANTS.

Top native butterburs All

Native to the US, ranked by caterpillars, then bees and other hosts, food, flowers and shelter.

  • Arctic Butterbur Petasites frigidus caterpillars 1 hosts 1 food 1 flowers 18

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