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Coltsfoot

noun

Tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall. Synonyms: beetleweed, galax, Galax urceolata, galaxy, wandflower.

Perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly. Synonym: Tussilago farfara.

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"Coltsfoot" Quotes from Famous Books

... be hardy, and coarse of make, and able to live anywhere, and yet be no weed. The coltsfoot, so far as I know, is the first of large-leaved plants to grow afresh on ground that has been disturbed: fall of Alpine debris, ruin of railroad embankment, waste of drifted slime by flood, it seeks to heal and redeem; but it does not offend us in our gardens, nor impoverish ...

— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Coltsfoot" : Tussilago, genus Galax, herbaceous plant, herb, genus Tussilago