Coltsfoot Synonyms

kōltsfo͝ot
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. galax
  2. galaxy
  3. wandflower
  4. beetleweed
  5. Galax urceolata
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. Tussilago farfara

Coltsfoot Sentence Examples

  • In waste places, white dead nettle, violets and coltsfoot may be in flower, attracting early bumblebees and honey bees.

  • Here the gleam of the miner's lamp outshines the little coltsfoot that grows tenaciously on the spoil heap.

  • Another species, P. vulgaris (Common Butterbur), is a native plant, 2 to 2 1/2 feet high, closely allied to the common Coltsfoot, but having great Rhubarb-like leaves.

Coltsfoot Is Also Mentioned In