Plant Details

Accepted name:: Petasites japonicus (Siebold & Zucc.) Maxim. [Asteraceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 2

Petasites japonicus subsp. giganteus Kitam.

Petasites japonicus subsp. japonicus

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
bitterskråp	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
bog rhubarb	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
butterbur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
butterfly dock	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
feng dou cai	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
fuki	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
fárfara japonesa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
giant butterbur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
great butterbur	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japanese sweet coltsfoot	Other	U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
japanische pestwurz	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
japonesa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
meowi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
pétasitès japonais	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
sweet-coltsfoot	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
tussilago petasites	Other	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
蜂斗菜	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 1 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Nardosmia japonica Siebold & Zucc. Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Königl. Bayer. Akad. Wiss. 4(3): 181 (1846).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Nardosmia japonica Sieb. & Zucc.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Petasites japonicus	SOTWP 2016: Kew Economic Botany Collection (RBG, Kew, 2015)
Petasites japonicus (Sieb. & Zucc.) F.Schmidt	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Petasites japonicus (Sieb. & Zucc.) Maxim.	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)
Petasites japonicus (Sieb. Et Zucc.) F. Schmidt	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Petasites japonicus (Sieb. et Zucc.) Fr. Schmidt	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Petasites japonicus (Sieb. et Zucc.) Maxim.	Checklist of Korean Cult. Plants (Mun-Chan et al., 1986)
Petasites japonicus (Siebold & Zucc.) Maxim.	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Petasites japonicus (Siebold & Zuccarini) Maximowicz	World Dictionary of Med. & Pois. Pl. (Quattrocchi, 2012)
Petasites japonicus F.Schmidt	U.S. Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia (HPUS, 2009)
Petasites japonicus Smith	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

The following online resources may contain further information about this plant. Please click on any link to search that resource. You may search using the accepted name alone OR using the accepted name and all of its synonyms simultaneously.

Search using just the accepted name

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images

Google Scholar

Encyclopedia of Life

Search using all scientific names used for this plant:

NCBI — (Including Pubmed & GenBank)

— Europe PubMed Central

Google Images