matchweed

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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