| herb garden | a garden for growing herbs |
pot grass
green goddess
dope
weed
gage sess
sens
smoke skunk
locoweed
Mary Jane | street names for marijuana |
weeder
weed-whacker | a hand tool for removing weeds |
| weed mourning band | a black band worn by a man (on the arm or hat) as a sign of mourning |
| herb | aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities |
comfrey
healing herb | leaves make a popular tisane, young leaves used in salads or cooked |
| dill pickle | pickle preserved in brine or vinegar flavored with dill seed |
dill
dill weed | aromatic threadlike foliage of the dill plant used as seasoning |
| dill seed | seed of the dill plant used as seasoning |
herb tea
herbal tea
herbal | tea-like drink made of leaves of various herbs |
herbalist
herb doctor | a therapist who heals by the use of herbs |
Simon
Herb Simon
Herbert A. Simon
Herbert Alexander Simon | United States economist and psychologist who pioneered in the development of cognitive science (-) |
baneberry cohosh
herb Christopher | a plant of the genus Actaea having acrid poisonous berries |
common dogbane
spreading dogbane
rheumatism weed Apocynum androsaemifolium | North American perennial having pinkish flowers in loose cymes, used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints |
| Indian hemp rheumatism weed Apocynum cannabinum | Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans, used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints |
skunk cabbage polecat weed
foetid pothos
Symplocarpus foetidus | deciduous perennial low-growing fetid swamp plant of eastern North America having minute flowers enclosed in a mottled greenish or purple cowl-shaped spathe |
pearlwort
pearlweed
pearl-weed | any of various low-growing plants of the genus Sagina having small spherical flowers resembling pearls |
alligator weed
alligator grass
Alternanthera philoxeroides | prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers, clogs waterways with dense floating masses |
winter cress
St. Barbara's herb
scurvy grass | any plant of the genus Barbarea: yellow-flowered Eurasian cresses, widely cultivated for winter salad |
field pennycress
French weed
fanweed
penny grass
stinkweed
mithridate mustard
Thlaspi arvense | foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods, naturalized throughout North America |
groundsel tree
groundsel bush
consumption weed
cotton-seed tree
Baccharis halimifolia | a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies, fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts |
coreopsis
tickseed
tickweed
tick-weed | any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods, North and South America |
Joe-Pye weed spotted Joe-Pye weed
Eupatorium maculatum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of small pinkish or purple flower heads |
Joe-Pye weed purple boneset
trumpet weed
marsh milkweed
Eupatorium purpureum | North American herb having whorled leaves and terminal clusters of flowers spotted with purple |
rabbitweed
rabbit-weed
snakeweed
broom snakeweed
broom snakeroot
turpentine weed
Gutierrezia sarothrae | low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads |
broomweed
broom-weed
Gutierrezia texana | annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers |
rattlesnake weed
Hieracium venosum | a hawkweed with a rosette of purple-veined basal leaves, Canada to northern Georgia and Kentucky |
pineapple weed
rayless chamomile
Matricaria matricarioides | annual aromatic weed of Pacific coastal areas (United States and northeastern Asia) having bristle-pointed leaves and rayless yellow flowers |
dyer's weed
Solidago rugosa | eastern North American herb whose yellow flowers are (or were) used in dyeing |
stemless golden weed
Stenotus acaulis
Haplopappus acaulis | dark green erect herb of northwestern United States and southwestern Canada having stiff leaves in dense tufts and yellow flower heads, sometimes placed in genus Haplopappus |
costmary
alecost
bible leaf
mint geranium
balsam herb
Tanacetum balsamita
Chrysanthemum balsamita | tansy-scented Eurasian perennial herb with buttonlike yellow flowers, used as potherb or salad green and sometimes for potpourri or tea or flavoring, sometimes placed in genus Chrysanthemum |
Virginia crownbeard
frostweed frost-weed Verbesina virginica | tall perennial herb having clusters of white flowers, the eastern United States |
herb
herbaceous plant | a plant lacking a permanent woody stem, many are flowering garden plants or potherbs, some having medicinal properties, some are pests |
agueweed ague weed
five-flowered gentian
stiff gentian
Gentianella quinquefolia
Gentiana quinquefolia | gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
orange grass
nitweed
pineweed
pine-weed
Hypericum gentianoides | annual wiry-stemmed North American weed with minute scalelike leaves and small yellow flowers |
klammath weed
Hypericum perforatum | yellow-flowered perennial common in fields and waste places but a weed in rangelands |
frostweed
frost-weed
frostwort Helianthemum canadense
Crocanthemum canadense | perennial of the eastern United States having early solitary yellow flowers followed by late petalless flowers, soalled because ice crystals form on it during first frosts |
herb Paris
Paris quadrifolia | European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums, reputed to be poisonous |
soapweed
soap-weed
soap tree
Yucca elata | tall arborescent yucca of southwestern United States |
coffee senna
mogdad coffee
styptic weed
stinking weed
Senna occidentalis
Cassia occidentalis | very leafy malodorous tropical weedy shrub whose seeds have been used as an adulterant for coffee, sometimes classified in genus Cassia |
indigo broom
horsefly weed
rattle weed
Baptisia tinctoria | much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers, distributed from Massachusetts to Florida |
prairie mimosa
prickle-weed
Desmanthus ilinoensis | perennial herb of North American prairies having dense heads of small white flowers |
locoweed
crazyweed
crazy weed | any of several leguminous plants of western North America causing locoism in livestock |
pickerelweed
pickerel weed
wampee
Pontederia cordata | American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds |
herb bennet
cloveroot
cloveroot
wood avens
Geum urbanum | hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally |
herb robert
herbs robert
herb roberts
Geranium robertianum | a sticky low herb with small reddish-purple flowers, widespread in the northern hemisphere |
Bermuda buttercup
English-weed
Oxalis pesaprae
Oxalis cernua | South African bulbous wood sorrel with showy yellow flowers |
rue
herb of grace
Ruta graveolens | European strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves, an irritant similar to poison ivy |
caltrop
devil's weed
Tribulus terestris | tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets, serious pasture weed |
skunkweed
skunk-weed
Polemonium viscosum | tall herb of the Rocky Mountains having sticky leaves and an offensive smell |