View source for Petasites ← Petasites You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: The action you have requested is limited to users in the group: Users. You can view and copy the source of this page. {{Treatment/ID |accepted_name=Petasites |accepted_authority=Miller |publications={{Treatment/Publication |title=Gard. Dict. Abr. ed. |place=4, vol. 3. 1754 |year=1754 }} |common_names=Butterbur;coltsfoot;pétasite |basionyms= |synonyms= |hierarchy=Asteraceae;Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae;Petasites |hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Asteraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Asteraceae tribe Senecioneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Petasites]]</div></div> |etymology=Attributed to Dioscorides, Greek petasos, broad-brimmed hat, alluding to large basal leaves |volume=Volume 20 |mention_page=page 541, 542, 543, 636, 637 |treatment_page=page 635 }}<!-- --><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Perennials,</b> 10–25(–120) cm (plants rhizomatous, polygamodioecious). <b>Stems</b> erect, not branched (± scapiform; stems of “staminate” plants wither soon after flowering, stems of “pistillate” plants elongate after flowering). <b>Leaves</b> basal and cauline; alternate; petiolate or sessile; basal (usually appearing after heads) palmately or palmati-pinnately nerved, mostly deltate to ovate or orbiculate, margins entire, denticulate, or toothed to lobed, abaxial faces ± tomentose, adaxial tomentulose and glabrescent or glabrous; cauline (sessile) bractlike (essentially expanded petioles, proximal sometimes bearing blades). <b>Heads</b> radiate, discoid, or disciform, usually in corymbiform, paniculiform, or racemiform arrays, rarely borne singly {“staminate” heads usually radiate, peripheral 1–20(–70) florets styliferous and sterile or neuter, inner 11–78 florets usually functionally staminate, rarely bisexual and fertile; “pistillate” heads usually radiate, peripheral (1–)30–130+ florets pistillate and fertile, inner 1–12 florets functionally staminate}. <b>Calyculi</b> 0 or of 1–5+ bractlets. <b>Involucres</b> obconic to turbinate, 6–15+ mm diam. (expanding in fruit). <b>Phyllaries</b> persistent, mostly 12–15 in (1–)2 series (often purplish-tinged), erect, distinct or connate, narrowly oblong to linear (1–5-nerved), subequal, margins ± scarious (apices not black). <b>Receptacles</b> flat to convex, foveolate, epaleate. <b>Ray</b> florets 0 or (1–)30–130+, usually fertile (in pistillate heads), sometimes styliferous and sterile or neuter (in staminate heads); corollas whitish or pinkish to purplish [yellow] (tubes filiform, laminae linear to oblong; styles filiform to clavate, entire or shallowly 2-cleft, papillate). <b>Peripheral</b> (pistillate) florets usually 30–125 and fertile, sometimes 0; corollas whitish or pinkish to purplish [yellow] (filiform, usually 5-lobed, sometimes minutely bilabiate; styles filiform to clavate, entire or shallowly 2-cleft, papillate). <b>Inner</b> (functionally staminate or bisexual) florets 1–78, usually functionally staminate, rarely bisexual and fertile; corollas whitish [yellow] (tubes longer than ± campanulate throats, lobes 5, erect or recurved, lanceolate to linear; styles linear to clavate, branches usually 0 or short-conic and papillate, sometimes lanceolate to oblong and ± hispidulous). <b>Cypselae</b> narrowly cylindric to weakly fusiform or ± prismatic, 5- or 10-ribbed, faces glabrous [villous]; pappi (pistillate florets) readily falling or fragile, of 60–100+, white, smooth or barbellulate bristles (elongating in fruit). <b>x</b> = 30.</span><!-- -->{{Treatment/Body |distribution=Boreal North America;southward in w Cordillera;Eurasia. |discussion=<p>Species 15–18 (1 in the flora).</p><!-- --><p>North American <i>Petasites</i> is taxonomically difficult as a result of low variability in reproductive morphology and a high degree of leaf polymorphism. The conservative reproductive structures across all taxa make identification almost impossible without foliage and, unhappily, flowering usually occurs prior to emergence of basal leaves. Further compounding the taxonomic confusion is the apparent intergradation of many of the different leaf forms as well as leaf morphologies being subject to environmental plasticity.</p><!-- --><p>Using morphometric, isozymic, and chromosomal data as well as crossing studies and observations of field and herbarium specimens, relationships of the various entities have been interpreted by D. M. Cherniawsky and R. J. Bayer (1998, 1998b). North American <i>Petasites</i> has been shown to be loosely comprised of four polymorphic groups. Close relationships among the groups were evident in all analyses by Cherniawsky and Bayer and suggested rapid and recent morphologic and genetic divergence in North America. They postulated that groups within North American <i>Petasites</i> have not yet reached a level of differentiation characteristic of distinct species. On this basis, North American <i>Petasites</i> is treated here as one polymorphic species with four infraspecific taxa, one a hybrid.</p><!-- --><p>Characters used in this treatment are those found to be the most taxonomically discriminating by D. M. Cherniawsky and R. J. Bayer (1998c), although there is a high degree of overlap of ranges across all taxa. Morphologic variation is continuous for most reproductive characters. Values for reproductive characters are mostly continuous with only a few extreme ranges providing some taxonomic demarcation. Although leaf characters were shown to be the most reliable, it is recommended that a combination of both flowers and leaves be used for accurate identifications.</p><!-- --><p>In cooler regions of the northern hemisphere, <i>Petasites</i> glacialis and P. gmelinii, both with yellow corollas and 1[–3] heads per array, approach the Bering Strait in northeastern Siberia; they apparently do not reach Alaska (E. Hultén 1968).</p><!-- --><p>Two relatively large-leaved exotic species of <i>Petasites</i> are sold as ornamentals: the European <i>P. hybridus</i> (Linnaeus) Gaertner, Meyer, & Scherbius, with purplish florets and reniform to orbiculate-cordate, shallowly angular-lobed, finely and unevenly toothed leaf blades 10–90(–100) cm wide; and the Asian P. japonicus (Siebold & Zuccarini) Maximowicz, with creamy white to whitish corollas and reniform-cordate, unlobed, finely toothed leaf blades 15–30(–150) cm wide. They occasionally escape cultivation (e.g., <i>P. hybridus</i> established in Michigan).</p><!-- --><p>The rhizomes, petioles, leaf blades, and young flower stalks of some species of <i>Petasites</i> are (or have been) used for food in various ways and their ashes are used as a salt substitute. In folk medicine, some species of <i>Petasites</i> are used as antiasthmatics, antispasmodics, and expectorants and in salve or poultice form.</p><!-- --><p>Measurements in the following key leads and descriptions are based almost wholly on North American specimens.</p> |tables= |references={{Treatment/Reference |id=cherniawsky1998a |text=Cherniawsky, D. M. and R. J. Bayer. 1998. Systematics of North American Petasites (Asteraceae: Senecioneae). I. Morphometric analyses. Canad. J. Bot. 76: 23–36. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=cherniawsky1998b |text=Cherniawsky, D. M. and R. J. Bayer. 1998b. Systematics of North American Petasites (Asteraceae: Senecioneae). II. Isozyme analysis and population genetic structure. Canad. J. Bot. 76: 1476–1487. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=cherniawsky1998c |text=Cherniawsky, D. M. and R. J. Bayer. 1998c. Systematics of North American Petasites (Asteraceae: Senecioneae). III. A taxonomic revision. Canad. J. Bot. 76: 2061–2075. }}{{Treatment/Reference |id=toman1972a |text=Toman, J. 1972. A taxonomic survey of the genera Petasites and Endocellion. Folia Geobot. Phytotax. 7: 381–406. }} }}<!-- --><!-- -->{{#Taxon: name=Petasites |author=Randall J. Bayer;A. Linn Bogle;Donna M. Cherniawsky |authority=Miller |rank=genus |parent rank=tribe |synonyms= |basionyms= |family=Asteraceae |distribution=Boreal North America;southward in w Cordillera;Eurasia. |reference=cherniawsky1998a;cherniawsky1998b;cherniawsky1998c;toman1972a |publication title=Gard. Dict. 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