Common Name: Coughwort, Tash Plant, Bull’s Foot, Farfara.

Scientific Name: Tussilago farfara

Family: Asteraceae

Origins: Europe (non-native)

Flowering Time: February to June

Habitat: Roadsides and waste places.

Range: Found from Ontario east to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, south into the states.

Use: The leaves’ extract can be used to make cough drops and the dried leaves can be steeped for tea. In Austria they used the plant to make a tea or syrup to treat respiratory, skin and viral infections, as well as colds, fevers and the flu.

Coltsfoot Sorbet Recipe

Sources:

Coltsfoot Sorbet Recipe. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ediblewildfood.com/coltsfoot-sorbet.aspx

Niering, William A., Nancy C. Olmstead, and John W. Thieret. National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Print.

Sylvia Vogl, Paolo Picker, Judit Mihaly-Bison, Nanang Fakhrudin, Atanas G. Atanasov, Elke H. Heiss, Christoph Wawrosch, Gottfried Reznicek, Verena M. Dirsch, Johannes Saukel & Brigitte Koppa (2013). “Ethnopharmacological in vitro studies on Austria’s folk medicine – an unexplored lore in vitro anti-inflammatory activities of 71 Austrian traditional herbal drugs”. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 149 (3): 750–771. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2013.06.007. PMC 3791396 . PMID 23770053.