Arctic butterbur

noun

A flowering plant native to North America, Petasites frigidus; sweet coltsfoot.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounArctic butterbur (plural Arctic butterburs)

plural Arctic butterburs

  1. A flowering plant native to North America, Petasites frigidus; sweet coltsfoot.

    Note that although medicinal species of Petasites, including purple butterbur (Petasites hybridus) and Arctic butterbur (Petasites frigidus), are not listed in this text, these species also contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids.

    2013, Zoë Gardner, Michael McGuffin, American Herbal Products Association’s Botanical Safety Handbook, page 964

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
sweet coltsfoot
Cite this entry
APA

Arctic butterbur. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arctic%20butterbur

MLA

“Arctic butterbur.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arctic%20butterbur. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Arctic butterbur,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Arctic%20butterbur.

Source: Arctic butterbur on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.