hawkweed
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- noun
- /ˈhɔkˌwid/
- Specialized
:
hieracium
- The field was beautiful with various wildflowers, including vibrant orange hawkweed swaying in the breeze.
Examples
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Ranchers reported having first seen the hawkweed in the 1960s, which roughly coincides with the improvement of significant areas of native pastureland.
Academic text (2008) -
Try the hawkweed. "The Devil's paintbrush?
Fiction book (1991) -
I'll need more Snowdonia hawkweed to mix another memory potion.
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But the illustrations draw him back to a time when the differences between a hawkweed and a dandelion could fascinate him for hours.
Fiction book (1999) -
Invasives, particularly mouse-eared hawkweed, existed in most pastures on the western side of the island.
Academic text (2008) -
During a trip to Grand Manan, a naturalist's island paradise in the Bay of Fundy of New Brunswick, Canada, I tried this technique on a field of daisies, orange and yellow hawkweed, and multicolored lupines.
Academic text (1996) -
The garden was filled with bright yellow hawkweed flowering in the summer sun.
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In the meadow, large patches of hawkweed bloomed, attracting many butterflies.
Synonyms
A small European plant with bright orange-red flowers that often grows wild and is a weed
A small wild plant with bright orange flowers often seen as a weed
A bright orange-red flower that spreads quickly and often becomes an unwanted weed in meadows
A small European wild plant with yellow flowers that can become a weed in the northeast United States
A low plant with soft hairy leaves and small yellow flowers like a dandelion
A small European wild plant with soft, hairy leaves and yellow flowers
A small wild flower like a dandelion with soft, hairy leaves
A small wild plant with hairy leaves and bright yellow flowers
A large group of hairy plants that live many years and look like small yellow daisies called hawkweeds
A small wild plant native to North America with purple veins on its round leaves
A small European wild plant that can spread and become a weed
Compounds
- Specialized
A small European wild plant with yellow flowers that can become a weed in the northeast United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hawkweed combines hawk ('a bird of prey') and weed ('a wild plant'); people once thought hawks ate or were connected to this common wild plant. So today hawkweed means a small wild plant with yellow or orange, dandelion-like flowers.