cudweed
English
Etymology
cud + weed, or perhaps an alteration of cottonweed or cutweed (referring to its application to cuts and chafings).
Noun
cudweed (countable and uncountable, plural cudweeds)
- Any of many of species of flowering plants in family Asteraceae:
- Gamochaeta, a plant genus with species in North and South America
- Gnaphalium, a plant genus with species in Eurasia and the Americas
- Pseudognaphalium, a plant genus native to North America
- Filago, a plant genus in Eurasia and North America
- Euchiton, a plant genus native to Australasia and the Pacific
- Helichrysum, a plant genus occurring in Africa, Australasia and Eurasia.
- Cudbear (Lecanora tartarea)
Derived terms
terms derived from cudweed
- alpine arctic cudweed (Omalotheca supina)
- arctic cudweed (Omalotheca)
- Arizona cudweed (Pseudognaphalium arizonicum)
- bighead pygmycudweed (Diaperia prolifera, syn. Evax prolifera)
- California cudweed (Pseudognaphalium californicum)
- common cudweed (Euchiton involucratus or Filago vulgaris)
- creeping cudweed (Euchiton collinus, syn. Euchiton gymnocephalus)
- Dominican cudweed (Gnaphalium domingense, syn. Pseudognaphalium domingense)
- dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax)
- dwarf dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax caulescens)
- erect dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax sparsiflora)
- Heller's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium helleri)
- Jersey cudweed (Laphangium affine, syn. Pseudognaphalium luteoalbum)
- Macoun's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium macounii)
- many stem cudweed (Gnaphalium polycaulon)
- marsh cudweed (Gnaphalium uliginosum)
- Norwegian arctic cudweed (Omalotheca norvegica)
- pink cudweed (Pseudognaphalium ramosissimum)
- Pringle's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium pringlei)
- pygmy cudweed (Evax)
- rosy cudweed (Pseudognaphalium roseum)
- royal cudweed (Gnaphalium elegans, syn. Pseudognaphalium elegans)
- shortleaf dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax sparsiflora var. brevifolia)
- silver pygmycudweed (Diaperia cacdida, syn. Evax candida)
- slender cudweed (Gnaphalium exilifolium)
- spring pygmycudweed (Diaperia verna, syn. Evax verna)
- stemless dwarf-cudweed (Hesperevax acaulis)
- tapered cudweed (Pseudognaphalium attenuatum)
- tropical creeping cudweed (Euchiton sphaericus)
- western marsh cudweed (Gnaphalium palustre)
- white cudweed (Pseudognaphalium leucocephalum)
- winged cudweed (Pseudognaphalium viscosum)
- woodland arctic cudweed (Gnaphalum sylvaticum, syn. Omalotheca sylvatica)
- woody cudweed (Helichrysum luteoalbum)
- Wright's cudweed (Pseudognaphalium canescens)
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