cudweed

Noun
  1. Any of numerous plants of the genus Gnaphalium having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color (synset 111993228)
    is a type of: everlasting, everlasting flower - any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color
    subtypes: chafeweed, gnaphalium sylvaticum, wood cudweed - weedy perennial of north temperate regions having woolly foliage and dirty white flowers in a leafy spike
    belongs to: genus gnaphalium, gnaphalium - large widely distributed genus of coarse hairy herbs with whitish involucres
  2. Any plant of the genus Filago having capitate clusters of small woolly flower heads (synset 111990570)
    is a type of: flower - a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
    subtypes: filago germanica, herba impia - (literally an undutiful herb) a variety of cotton rose
    belongs to: genus filago - genus of small woolly herbs
    same as: cotton rose, filago
  3. Perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States (synset 111951257)
    is a type of: mugwort - any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia
    same as: artemisia gnaphalodes, artemisia ludoviciana, prairie sage, western mugwort, white sage

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