English > matchbush: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | Any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches. |
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Synonym | matchweed |
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Member of | Gutierrezia, genus Gutierrezia | sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America |
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Narrower | broomweed, broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana | annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers |
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little-head snakeweed, Gutierrezia microcephala | Similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers |
rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae | low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads |
Broader | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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