rabbit-weed

Definitions of rabbit-weed
  1. noun
    low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
    synonyms: Gutierrezia sarothrae, broom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, rabbitweed, snakeweed, turpentine weed
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    type of:
    matchbush, matchweed
    any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches
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