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Definition of Cudweed
1. Noun. Any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color.
Group relationships: Genus Gnaphalium, Gnaphalium
Specialized synonyms: Chafeweed, Gnaphalium Sylvaticum, Wood Cudweed
2. Noun. Any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads.
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Genus Filago
Specialized synonyms: Filago Germanica, Herba Impia
3. Noun. Perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States.
Generic synonyms: Mugwort
Definition of Cudweed
1. n. A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.
Definition of Cudweed
1. Noun. Any of the flowering plants of the genus (spelink Gnaphalium) or (spelink Pseudognaphalium), related to the daisy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cudweed
1. a perennial herb [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cudweed
Literary usage of Cudweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential by James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1812)
"... doubt has arisen concerning this cudweed as a native of Britain, because it
is not now to be found in the sandy ..."
2. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"cudweed, EVERLASTING. Heads all alike, discoid, heterogamous ; the pistillate
flowers numerous in several series, witli filiform corollas ; the perfect and ..."
3. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"LOWLAND cudweed. Annual, branching from the base, 3 to 8 in. high, erect or
ascending; herbage loosely ..."
4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter (1903)
"... purpureum L. PURPLISH cudweed. (Man. p. 978; IF f. 3854.) In dry sandy soil,
eastern Me. to Fla., west to Pa., W. Va., Ky., Kans., Tex. and Мех. Also on ..."
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