matchweed

Definitions of matchweed

1. noun

   any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches
   synonyms: matchbush

   types:

   Gutierrezia microcephala, little-head snakeweed

   similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowers

   Gutierrezia sarothrae, broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, 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

   Gutierrezia texana, broom-weed, broomweed

   annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers

   type of:

   subshrub, suffrutex

   low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base