Butterbur

Longitude (deg): -0.8. Latitude (deg): 53.9. Longitude (deg/min): 0° 50' W. Latitude (deg/min): 53° 60' N. Vice county name: South-east Yorks. Vice county no.: 61. Country: England. Stage: Plant. Identified by: Malcolm Storey. Comment: Female plant. Category: standard photograph or close-up. Photographic equipment used: "35mm transparencies (on a variety of films, but Agfa CT18 in the 1960's to early 1980's followed by Fujichrome in the late 1980's.) Transparencies scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Dual II AF-2820U transparency scanner.".

2010.04.07 Austria, Lower Austria, district Baden (Allandriegel 590 m AMSL).Flower.Common.German name: Weiss-Pestwurz

Cesuna, Veneto, Italy

2010-03-29 Lower Austria, districts Neunkirchen/Wr. Neustadt Land (~1000 m AMSL).Young bud - at this altitude, snow only just had melted when the shot was taken; further down the slope they were already flowering on that very same day.German name: Weiss-Pestwurz

Piovene Rocchette, Veneto, Italy

2010.04.18 Austria, Upper Austria, district Freistadt (forest with mainly spruce, 945 m).Flowering in (february) march-april.Very common (but not growing in the lowlands).German name: Weiss-PestwurzID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)

2010-03-29 Lower Austria, district Wr. Neustadt Land (765 m AMSL).German name: Weiss-Pestwurz

2010.04.07 Austria, Lower Austria, district Baden (Allandriegel 590 m AMSL).Flowering in march/april, just after snow-melt.Common on wet places in hilly regions and in the Alps (not growing in the lowlands).German name: Weiss-Pestwurz

2010-03-29 Lower Austria, district Wr. Neustadt Land (765 m AMSL).German name: Weiss-Pestwurz

2010.04.18 Austria, Upper Austria, district Freistadt (forest with mainly spruce, 945 m).Young buds: while in lower-lying regions (at around 600 metres and above, they don't grow in the lowlands proper) they have been flowering for some time already they've only just begun at this altitude.Very common.German name: Weiss-PestwurzID: Fischer, Exkursionsflora (2008 3rd)

2010.04.17 Austria, Upper Austria, district Rohrbach/O (660 m AMSL).Flowering in (february) march/apri/may, here rather late (due to altitude and relatively cold weather this year).Common.German name: Weiss-Pestwurz

Piovene Rocchette, Veneto, Italy

Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark

Bonn Botanischen Grten, Bonn, Deutschland

It grew near houses in a a small slope. They haven't been there during the last two years.

2010.04.25 Austria, Lower Austria, district Lilienfeld (Halbach river; 510 m AMSL).Flowering from march till may, sharing its habitat with P. hybridus (Caltha prefers slightly wetter habitats).Common.German name: Sumpfdotterblume

2010.04.25 Austria, Lower Austria, district Lilienfeld (above Rossbachklamm 680 m AMSL).Flowering in (march) april/may.Common.German name: Bach-Pestwurz

2010.04.25 Austria, Lower Austria, district Lilienfeld (near Fensterbach, Halbachtal, 520 m AMSL).Leaf: they only come out some time after flowering has begun; note the leaf nerves on the inside near the stem.Common.German name: Bach-Pestwurz

The flower spike appears before the leaves as happens for butterburs (and coltsfoot). Nearly all plants in Finland are male.