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Definition of Sweet coltsfoot

1. Noun. American sweet-scented herb.

2. Noun. European herb with vanilla-scented white-pink flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Coltsfoot

sweet bay sweet bells sweet birch sweet bread sweet buckeye sweet calabash sweet calamus sweet cheeks sweet cherry sweet chestnut

sweet cicely sweet cider sweet ciders sweet clover sweet coltsfoot (current term) sweet corn sweet corn plant sweet corns sweet cream sweet cup

sweet dreams sweet elder sweet false chamomile sweet fern sweet flag sweet flags sweet four o'clock sweet gale

Literary usage of Sweet coltsfoot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Manual of Botany of the Central Rocky Mountains (vascular Plants) by John Merle Coulter (1909)
"sweet coltsfoot Perennial herbs, with thickish and creeping rootstocks sending up scapi- form simple flowering stems and ample radical leaves on strong ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"sweet coltsfoot. Height 8 in.: Ivs. appearing during or after an- thesis, orbicular, margined with small cartilaginous teeth, glabrous above, pubescent and ..."

3. Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada by Charles Francis Saunders (1920)
"One such is the sweet coltsfoot (Petasites palmata, Gray), a perennial herb .of the Composite tribe, having large, rounded, deeply fingered leaves, ..."

4. Catalogue of the Flora of Minnesota Including Its Phaenogamous and Vascular by Warren Upham (1884)
"sweet coltsfoot. Red river valley near Saint Vincent (in a "low damp thicket ; in full bloom in the first week of May; seed nearly ripe, June 4; ..."

5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"sweet coltsfoot. Height 8 in.: Ivs. appearing during or after anthesis, orbicular, margined with small cartilaginous teeth, glabrous above, pubescent and ..."

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