sweet coltsfoot

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English

Japanese sweet coltsfoot, Petasites japonicus

Noun

sweet coltsfoot (plural sweet coltsfoots)

  1. Various plant species of the genus Petasites.
    • 1920, Charles Francis Saunders, Useful Wild Plants of the United States and Canada, page 232:
      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
    • 2003, Carolyn Harstad, Got Shade? A "Take it Easy" Approach for Today's Gardener, page 149:
      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.
    1. Petasites japonicus, a flowering plant native to Asia; Japanese sweet coltsfoot.
      • 1983, Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record: Plants and Gardens, volume 39, page 52:
        Other popularly used plants are tassel-flower (Cacalia hastata var. tanakae), plumed thistles (Circium amplexifolium), sweet coltsfoot (Petasites japonicus), and wormwood (Artemisia absinthium)
    2. Petasites frigidus, a flowering plant native to North America; northern sweet coltsfoot; Arctic butterbur.
      • 2009, Mesaba Energy Project Environmental Impact Statement, 3.8-3:
        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).

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