snakeweed

sna·ke·weed

uncommon

noun

low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads

Synonyms

rabbitweed
rabbit-weed
broom snakeweed
broom snakeroot
turpentine weed
Gutierrezia sarothrae

Origin

From snake + weed: in some cases (e.g. bistort) because of the twisted roots.

Phrases

blue snakeweed
Cayenne snakeweed
dark blue snakeweed
dark-blue snakeweed

Related words

Broader terms

matchweed

Parts

Gutierrezia

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.

noun
singular	snakeweed
plural	snakeweeds