Question: Hi I have two flowering plants that are driving me nuts if I could get some Id help would be …
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Hi I have two flowering plants that are driving me nuts if I could get some Id help would be great. The Pink with the white flower tips grow everywhere along the Chagrin river in Ohio, the ones with the yellow heads I have only seen a couple but in the same area, they are more like a begonia stem, and will tolerate a floodplain.
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Grizzlyman03, the image with the yellow flowers is Tussilago farfara (coltsfoot). This plant is native to Europe. The pink flowers are Petasites hybridus (butterbur sweet-coltsfoot), another native of the Old World. Both will produce foliage leaves later in the spring (they emerge after the leaves, a condition called precocious). Best wishes.
