snakeweed

snake·weed  (snkwd)

n.

Any of various plants, such as bistort, reputed to have the power to cure snakebite.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

snakeweed - low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbit-weed, rabbitweed, turpentine weed genus Gutierrezia, Gutierrezia - sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South America matchbush, matchweed - any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches