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sweet coltsfoot en · NOUN

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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:
   • 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:
2. Various plant species of the genus Petasites. ▸ 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:
3. Various plant species of the genus Petasites. ▸ 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:

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Synonyms

Arctic butterbur · giant butterbur · butterbur (various Petasites species) · fuki