rattleweed

English

Etymology

From rattle +‎ weed.

Noun

rattleweed (countable and uncountable, plural rattleweeds)

  1. Any plant of the genus Astragalus.[1] of milkvetches.
    Synonyms: milkvetch, locoweed
  2. Certain other plants:
    1. Cobwebby wild indigo (Baptisia arachnifera), an endangered legume native to the United States.
    2. Fremont’s leather flower (Clematis fremontii), a flowering plant in the buttercup family found in the United States.
    3. Rattlepod (Crotalaria retusa), a flowering legume native to tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia.
    4. Desert senna (Senna covesii), a perennial subshrub native to the United States and Mexico.
    5. Black cohosh (Actaea racemosa)
      Synonym: rattleroot

References

  1. ^ “rattleweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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