Irish wildflowers BSBI map

Winter Heliotrope, Petasites fragrans, Plúr na gréine
Photographs: Co. Cork

Winter Heliotrope
Petasites pyrenaicus (Petasites fragrans)
Plúr na gréine
Family: Asteraceae

Flowering: December-March. Perennial. Introduced. Garden escape.

Scented heads of lilac-pink flowers appear with the leaves in winter. The leaves are rounded to heart-shaped, toothed and paler green underneath. Height 10-25cm.

Can be locally abundant on waste ground, roadsides, woodland and by streams. Introduced from NW Europe. Increasing.

Similar: Butterbur, Petasites hybridus. Larger leaves appear after the flowers, growing to 60cm diameter. Native.

Winter Heliotrope, Petasites fragrans, Plúr na gréine

Winter Heliotrope, Petasites fragrans, Plúr na gréine
Winter Heliotrope, Petasites pyrenaicus (Petasites fragrans), Plúr na gréine

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