1. Low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
   "snakeweed thrived in the arid conditions of the desert"; "broom snakeweed thrived in the arid conditions of the desert";
   - rabbitweed, rabbit-weed, broom snakeweed, broom snakeroot, turpentine weed, Gutierrezia sarothrae

Derived forms: snakeweeds

Type of: matchbush, matchweed

Part of: genus Gutierrezia, Gutierrezia

Encyclopedia: Snakeweed