sweet coltsfoot

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).

• (various Petasites species): butterbur
• (P. japonicus): fuki, giant butterbur
• (P. frigidus): Arctic butterbur