matchweed

Thesaurus

Noun

1.matchweed - any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matchesmatchbushgenus Gutierrezia, Gutierrezia - sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South AmericaGutierrezia microcephala, little-head snakeweed - similar to Gutierrezia sarothrae but with flower heads having fewer rays and disk flowersbroom snakeroot, broom snakeweed, Gutierrezia sarothrae, rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, 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 headsbroomweed, broom-weed, Gutierrezia texana - annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowerssubshrub, suffrutex - low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base