genus Gutierrezia

Thesaurus

Noun

1.genus Gutierrezia - sticky perennial herbs and subshrubs of western North America and warm South AmericaGutierreziaasterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsaster family, Asteraceae, Compositae, family Asteraceae, family Compositae - plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinniamatchbush, matchweed - any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matchesbroom 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 flowers