yellowweed

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English

Yellowweed or wrinkleleaf goldenrod, Solidago rugosa

Etymology

From yellow +‎ weed.

Noun

yellowweed (usually uncountable, plural yellowweeds)

  1. Any of several plants with yellow flowers.
    1. Goldenrod (several species in the genus Solidago)
      • 1960, D.S. Erskine, The Plants of Prince Edward Island, Canada Department of Agriculture, page 244:
        Solidago rugosa Common throughout. Open, damp to dryish sites: borders of woods, thickets. One of the four important “yellowweeds” of fields.
    2. Sneezeweed (several species in the genus Helenium)
      • 1940, Forest Service, Wool growers, range owners, range administrators should work together to stop sheep losses from poisonous orange sneezeweed, United States Department of Agriculture, page 3:
        Orange sneezeweed, also called Hoopes sneezeweed, western sneezeweed, owlsclaws, sunflower, and yellowweed, is a perennial plant poisonous to livestock.
    3. Dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola)
      • 1978, Janet Beeler Shaw, Dowry: Poems by Janet N. Beeler, University of Missouri Press, page 14:
        time to bring kettles to the barnlot / and boil my dyes— / yellowweed, / red from madder root,
    4. Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
    5. Wintercress (several species in the genus Barbarea)
    6. Ball mustard (Neslia paniculata)