yellowweed

English

Yellowweed or wrinkleleaf goldenrod, Solidago rugosa

Etymology

From yellow +‎ weed.

Noun

yellowweed (usually uncountable, plural yellowweeds)

1. Any of several plants with yellow flowers.
   1. Goldenrod (several species in the genus Solidago)
      • 1960, D.S. Erskine, The Plants of Prince Edward Island, Canada Department of Agriculture, page 244:

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

   2. Sneezeweed (several species in the genus Helenium)
      • 1940, Forest Service, Wool growers, range owners, range administrators should work together to stop sheep losses from poisonous orange sneezeweed, United States Department of Agriculture, page 3:

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

   3. Dyer's rocket (Reseda luteola)
      • 1978, Janet Beeler Shaw, Dowry: Poems by Janet N. Beeler, University of Missouri Press, page 14:

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

   4. Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris)
   5. Wintercress (several species in the genus Barbarea)
   6. Ball mustard (Neslia paniculata)