golden yarrow

1. 1.

   greyish woolly leafy perennial with branched stems ending in leafless stalks bearing golden-yellow flower heads; dry areas western North America

   SynonymsEriophyllum lanatum

   Broaderwoolly sunflower

Questions about golden yarrow

What does golden yarrow mean?

golden yarrow means "greyish woolly leafy perennial with branched stems ending in leafless stalks bearing golden-yellow flower heads; dry areas western North America".

What is another word for golden yarrow?

Close synonyms include Eriophyllum lanatum. 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 golden yarrow a common word?

golden yarrow 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.