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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

... Coltsfoot is an Arcadian weed that maddens, on the hills, the young stallions and fleet-footed mares. Ah! even as these may I see Delphis; and to this house of mine, may he speed like a madman, leaving the ...

— Theocritus, Bion and Moschus rendered into English Prose • Andrew Lang

... fruits wear so familiar an appearance; and tall pines, the giants of this "pigmy forest." There the Japanese privet ripens its black berries, mingled with the Paulownia and the Cratoegus with their tender green foliage. Coltsfoot mingles with violets; clumps of sage and thyme mix their fragrance with the scent of rosemary and a host of balsamic plants. Amid the cacti, their fleshy leaves bristling with prickles, the periwinkle ...

— Fabre, Poet of Science • Dr. G.V. (C.V.) Legros

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