Snakeweed \Snake"weed`\, n. (Bot.) (a) A kind of knotweed ({Polygonum Bistorta}). (b) The Virginia snakeroot. See {Snakeroot}.
snakeweed n : low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads [syn: {rabbitweed}, {rabbit-weed}, {broom snakeweed}, {broom snakeroot}, {turpentine weed}, {Gutierrezia sarothrae}]