Burnweed

Quick meaning: Burnweed is a noun meaning Any of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites.

Meaning

Any of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites.

Example Sentences

There are also warnings of alkaloids, which burnweed contains. Eaten in sufficient quantity (but no one can tell us what that is), the plant could potentially cause harm – a warning never to ignore.

The herb cover is very open to semiclosed, and is dominated by rough cinquefoil (Potentilla norvegica*), reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinacea), marsh skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), American burnweed (Erechtites hieraciifolia), annual fleabane (Erigeron annuus subsp. annuus) and others.

Word Forms

• burnweeds

Synonyms for burnweed

Depending on context, synonyms include fireweed.

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