suffrutex

1. Low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base (synset 113139466)
   is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
   subtypes:

   • darling pea, poison bush - either of two Australian plants of the genus Swainsona that are poisonous to sheep
   • amsonia tabernaemontana, blue star - subshrubs of southeastern United States forming slow-growing clumps and having blue flowers in short terminal cymes
   • periwinkle - chiefly trailing poisonous plants with blue flowers
   • aralia nudicaulis, false sarsaparilla, wild sarsaparilla, wild sarsparilla - common perennial herb having aromatic roots used as a substitute for sarsaparilla; central and eastern North America
   • american spikenard, aralia racemosa, life-of-man, petty morel - unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels; southeastern North America to Mexico
   • aralia hispida, bristly sarsaparilla, bristly sarsparilla, dwarf elder - bristly herb of eastern and central North America having black fruit and medicinal bark
   • bloodleaf - any plant of the genus Iresine having colored foliage
   • cleome pinnata, desert plume, prince's-plume, stanleya pinnata - perennial of southwestern United States having leathery blue-green pinnatifid leaves and thick plumelike spikes of yellow flowers; sometimes placed in genus Cleome
   • california tree poppy, matilija poppy, romneya coulteri - tall branching subshrub of California and Mexico often cultivated for its silvery-blue foliage and large fragrant white flowers
   • burdock, clotbur - any of several erect biennial herbs of temperate Eurasia having stout taproots and producing burs
   • argyranthemum frutescens, chrysanthemum frutescens, marguerite, marguerite daisy, paris daisy - perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum
   • wormwood - any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium
   • sage brush, sagebrush - any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
   • beggar's-ticks, beggar-ticks, bur marigold, burr marigold, sticktight - any of several plants of the genus Bidens having yellow flowers and prickly fruits that cling to fur and clothing
   • centaury - any plant of the genus Centaurea
   • matchbush, matchweed - any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny flower heads that resemble the heads of matches
   • guayule, parthenium argentatum - much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber
   • american feverfew, parthenium integrifolium, prairie dock, wild quinine - stout perennial herb of the eastern United States with whitish flowers; leaves traditionally used by Catawba Indians to treat burns
   • bastard pimpernel, chaffweed, false pimpernel - weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves
   • thrift - any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers
   • marsh rosemary, sea lavender, statice - any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers
   • corchorus - any of various plants of the genus Corchorus having large leaves and cymose clusters of yellow flowers; a source of jute
   • diapensia - any boreal low-growing evergreen plant of the genus Diapensia
   • loosestrife - any of numerous herbs and subshrubs of the genus Lythrum
   • deer grass, meadow beauty - any of several plants of the genus Rhexia usually having pink-purple to magenta flowers; eastern North America
   • st john's wort - any of numerous plants of the genus Hypericum having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves; traditionally gathered on St John's eve to ward off evil
   • false heather, golden heather, hudsonia ericoides - North American decumbent evergreen heathlike plant with yellow flowers
   • beach heather, hudsonia tomentosa, poverty grass - small heathlike plant covered with white down growing on beaches in northeastern North America
   • cassia fasciculata, chamaecrista fasciculata, partridge pea, sensitive pea, wild sensitive plant - tropical American plant having leaflets somewhat sensitive to the touch; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
   • cassia tora, senna obtusifolia, sicklepod - cosmopolitan tropical herb or subshrub with yellow flowers and slender curved pods; a weed; sometimes placed in genus Cassia
   • beggar lice, beggar's lice, tick trefoil - any of various tropical and subtropical plants having trifoliate leaves and rough sticky pod sections or loments
   • hedysarum boreale, sweet vetch - perennial of western United States having racemes of pink to purple flowers followed by flat pods that separate into nearly orbicular joints
   • french honeysuckle, hedysarum coronarium, sulla - perennial of southern Europe cultivated for forage and for its nectar-rich pink flowers that make it an important honey crop
   • hippocrepis comosa, horseshoe vetch - European woody perennial with yellow umbellate flowers followed by flattened pods that separate into horseshoe-shaped joints
   • cube - any of several tropical American woody plants of the genus Lonchocarpus whose roots are used locally as a fish poison and commercially as a source of rotenone
   • compass plant, lotus americanus, prairie bird's-foot trefoil, prairie lotus, prairie trefoil - North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers
   • coral gem, lotus berthelotii - low-growing much-branched perennial of Canary Islands having orange-red to scarlet or purple flowers; naturalized in United States
   • babies' slippers, bacon and eggs, bird's foot clover, bird's foot trefoil, lotus corniculatus - European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America
   • indian beet, lupinus perennis, old-maid's bonnet, sundial lupine, wild lupine - stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
   • ononis repens, rest-harrow, restharrow - European woody plant having pink flowers and unifoliate leaves and long tough roots; spreads by underground runners
   • ononis spinosa, rest-harrow, restharrow - Eurasian plant having loose racemes of pink or purple flowers and spiny stems and tough roots
   • hoary pea - a plant of the genus Tephrosia having pinnate leaves and white or purplish flowers and flat hairy pods
   • kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, polygonum orientale, prince's-feather, prince's-plume, princess feather - annual with broadly ovate leaves and slender drooping spikes of crimson flowers; southeastern Asia and Australia; naturalized in North America
   • eriogonum - any plant of the genus Eriogonum with small clustered flowers
   • dryas octopetala, mountain avens - creeping evergreen shrub with large white flowers; widely distributed in northern portions of Eurasia and North America
   • avens - any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers
   • prunus besseyi, rocky mountains cherry, western sand cherry - dwarf ornamental shrub of western United States having large black to red and yellow sweet edible fruit
   • woodruff - any plant of the genus Asperula
   • linnaea borealis, twinflower - creeping evergreen subshrub of the northern parts of Europe and Asia with delicate fragrant tubular bell-shaped usually pink flowers borne in pairs
   • milkwort - any of various plants of the genus Polygala
   • caltrop, devil's weed, tribulus terestris - tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
   • pachysandra - any plant of the genus Pachysandra; low-growing evergreen herbs or subshrubs having dentate leaves and used as ground cover
   • aeonium haworthii, pinwheel - perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels
   • phlomis - any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage
   • jerusalem sage, phlomis fruticosa - a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers
   • germander - any of various plants of the genus Teucrium
   • blue curls - any of several plants of the genus Trichostema having whorls of small blue flowers
   • eringo, eryngo - any plant of the genus Eryngium
   same as: subshrub

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