Swallow Wort (Noun)
Meaning
Perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Vincetoxicum rossicum, also known as swallow-wort, is a perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers that can outcompete native vegetation.
- The invasive black swallow-wort has spread rapidly throughout southern New England, threatening to choke out native plants and harm local ecosystems.
- Black swallow-wort and pale swallow-wort are sometimes confused with honeyvine milkweed because all three vines have small white flowers in midsummer.
- When establishing new wildlife-friendly meadows and prairies it's critical to consider areas currently colonized by noxious plants such as buckthorn or black swallow-wort for weed treatment or possibly, planned rest and erosion intervention actions post-fire monitoring survey would capture valuable opportunity provide added capacity document altered long grass prescribed methods where livestock frequent prairies given years earlier first begun surveys monitor activities annually of nature existing well restoration design prairie re-seeding over other areas.
- The delicate yellow blooms of the swallow-wort in May and June become a nuisance when seed pods form and open and spores spread to new areas of favorable habitat.