matchweed (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *matchweed*:
NOUN	plant	matchweed, matchbush	any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches

English > *matchweed*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	Any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches.
Synonym	matchbush
Member of	Gutierrezia, genus Gutierrezia	sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America
Narrower	broomweed, broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana	annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers
	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

HyperDic: matchweed