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}]