English > subshrub: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base. |
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| Synonym | suffrutex |
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| Narrower | American feverfew, wild quinine, prairie dock, Parthenium integrifolium | stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers |
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| American spikenard, petty morel, life-of-man, Aralia racemosa | Unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels |
| French honeysuckle, sulla, Hedysarum coronarium | perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop |
| Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa | A spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers |
| St John's wort | Any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves |
| Western sand cherry, Rocky Mountains cherry, Prunus besseyi | Dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit |
| avens | Any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers |
| beach heather, poverty grass, Hudsonia tomentosa | small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America |
| bird's foot trefoil, bird's foot clover, babies' slippers, bacon and eggs, Lotus corniculatus | European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America |
| bloodleaf | Any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage |
| blue curls | Any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers |
| blue star, Amsonia tabernaemontana | subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps / clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes |
| bristly sarsaparilla, bristly sarsparilla, dwarf elder, Aralia hispida | bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark |
| bur marigold, burr marigold, beggar-ticks, beggar's-ticks, sticktight | Any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing |
| burdock, clotbur | Any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs |
| caltrop, devil's weed, Tribulus terestris | Tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets |
| centaury | Any plant of the genus Centaurea |
| chaffweed, bastard pimpernel, false pimpernel | weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves |
| coral gem, Lotus berthelotii | low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers |
| corchorus | Any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers |
| cube | Any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone |
| darling pea, poison bush | Either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep |
| deer grass, meadow beauty | Any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers |
| desert plume, prince's-plume, Stanleya pinnata, Cleome pinnata | perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers |
| diapensia | Any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia |
| eriogonum | Any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers |
| eryngo, eringo | Any plant of the genus Eryngium |
| false heather, golden heather, Hudsonia ericoides | North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers |
| germander | Any of various plants of the genus Teucrium |
| guayule, Parthenium argentatum | Much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico |
| hoary pea | A plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods |
| horseshoe vetch, Hippocrepis comosa | European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints |
| loosestrife | Any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum |
| marguerite, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy, Chrysanthemum frutescens, Argyranthemum frutescens | perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers |
| matchweed, matchbush | Any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches |
| matilija poppy, California tree poppy, Romneya coulteri | tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers |
| milkwort | Any of various plants of the genus Polygala |
| mountain avens, Dryas octopetala | Creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers |
| pachysandra | Any plant of the genus Pachysandra |
| partridge pea, sensitive pea, wild sensitive plant, Chamaecrista fasciculata, Cassia fasciculata | Tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch |
| periwinkle | chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers |
| phlomis | Any of various plants of the genus Phlomis |
| pinwheel, Aeonium haworthii | perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels |
| prairie bird's-foot trefoil, compass plant, prairie lotus, prairie trefoil, Lotus americanus | North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers |
| prince's-feather, princess feather, kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, prince's-plume, Polygonum orientale | Annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers |
| restharrow, rest-harrow, Ononis repens | European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough / tough roots |
| restharrow, rest-harrow, Ononis spinosa | Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough / tough roots |
| sagebrush, sage brush | Any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium |
| sea lavender, marsh rosemary, statice | Any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers |
| sicklepod, Senna obtusifolia, Cassia tora | cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods |
| sweet vetch, Hedysarum boreale | perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints |
| thrift | Any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers |
| tick trefoil, beggar lice, beggar's lice | Any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments |
| twinflower, Linnaea borealis | Creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs |
| wild lupine, sundial lupine, Indian beet, old-maid's bonnet, Lupinus perennis | stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers |
| wild sarsaparilla, false sarsaparilla, wild sarsparilla, Aralia nudicaulis | Common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla |
| woodruff | Any plant of the genus Asperula |
| wormwood | Any of several low composite herbs of the genera ... / genera Artemisia or Seriphidium |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
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| Spanish | subarbusto, suffrutex |
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| Catalan | suffrutex |
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