sweet coltsfoot

Noun

sweet coltsfoot (plural sweet coltsfoots)

1. Various plant species of the genus Petasites.
   • 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 leaves1920, Charles Francis Saunders, Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada, page 232
   • 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
   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