broom snakeweed

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   low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads

   Synonymsrabbitweedrabbit-weedsnakeweedbroom snakerootturpentine weedGutierrezia sarothrae

   Broadermatchweed

   Part ofGutierrezia

Questions about broom snakeweed

What does broom snakeweed mean?

broom snakeweed means "low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads".

What is another word for broom snakeweed?

Close synonyms include rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is broom snakeweed a common word?

broom snakeweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.