sweet coltsfoot

plural sweet coltsfoots

1. Various plant species of the genus Petasites.

   Friends planted the native Sweet Coltsfoot in front of P. japonicus at the bottom of their moist ravine, and the combination makes quite a statement.

   2003, Carolyn Harstad, Got Shade? A "Take it Easy" Approach for Today's Gardener, page 149

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   Certain plants may even be made to yield salt, by being burned to ashes. One such is the Sweet Coltsfoot (Petasites palmata, Gray), a perennial herb of the Composite tribe, having large, rounded, deeply fingered leaves

   1920, Charles Francis Saunders, Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada, page 232

   1. Petasites japonicus, a flowering plant native to Asia; Japanese sweet coltsfoot.

      Other popularly used plants are tassel-flower (Cacalia hastata var. tanakae), plumed thistles (Circium amplexifolium), sweet coltsfoot (Petasites japonicus), and wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)

      1983, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record: Plants and Gardens, volume 39, page 52

   2. Petasites frigidus, a flowering plant native to North America; northern sweet coltsfoot; Arctic butterbur.

      Common understory forbs included, but were not limited to, large-leaved aster, bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum), bluebead lily, species of clubmoss, Canada mayflower, and sweet coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus).

      2009, Mesaba Energy Project Environmental Impact Statement, 3.8-3