Meaning of yellowweed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several plants with yellow flowers.
   uncountable, usually
2. Goldenrod (several species in the genus Solidago)
   uncountable, usually
3. Sneezeweed (several species in the genus Helenium)
   uncountable, usually
4. Dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola)
   uncountable, usually
5. Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
   uncountable, usually
6. Wintercress (several species in the genus Barbarea)
   uncountable, usually
7. Ball mustard (Neslia paniculata)
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“Solidago rugosa Common throughout. Open, damp to dryish sites: borders of woods, thickets. One of the four important “yellowweeds” of fields.”

“Orange sneezeweed, also called Hoopes sneezeweed, western sneezeweed, owlsclaws, sunflower, and yellowweed, is a perennial plant poisonous to livestock.”

“time to bring kettles to the barnlot / and boil my dyes— / yellowweed, / red from madder root,”

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