Snakeweed (Noun)
Meaning
Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Desert hiking requires precautions, as visitors need to navigate prickly shrubs, snakes, and trails with vast fields of irritating snakeweed.
- Growing naturally only in well-draining rocky ground and elevations under four thousand feet, Gutierrezia microcephala thrives across various ecoregions within snakeweed-dominating patches in large habitat as described throughout varied documentation widely established early or onward also scientifically explored too gradually thereafter continuing documented closely based its distinct role along semi permanent channels established either historical landscape alterations over multi centuries long or more likely temporary ones all across this particular area.
- Ranchers disliked the areas that produced no income, instead being covered with trees or weeds or shrubs like snakeweed that they considered worthless.
- In our beautiful public lands, they would see low-growing shrubs such as the creosotebush and snakeweed, and several species of cacti.
- Yucca flowers, and cholla cactus dominated rocky outcroppings dotting vast open spaces speckled heavily with saltbush and snakeweed that grew on or spreading over rocky or sandy areas in semi desert as far as the eye can perceive.