sneezeweed

IPA: snˈizwid

noun

  • (US) A plant of the genus Helenium, especially Helenium autumnale.
  • (Australia) A plant of the genus Centipeda; either of the species Centipeda cunninghami or Centipeda minima, which induce sneezing and are known as a folk remedy for colds and allergic reactions.
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Examples of "sneezeweed" in Sentences

  • Common sneezeweed grows up to a meter tall.
  • Common sneezeweed is cultivated as a garden perennial.
  • Your sneezeweed is as pretty as you described Frances.
  • Common names include common sneezeweed and large flowered sneezeweed.
  • I think sneezeweed might keep people from trying this wonderful plant.
  • As Hanson reflects on the season, she points out yarrow and sneezeweed (Helenium).
  • Tijuana Brass autumn sneezeweed is a wonderful new perennial for the cutting garden.
  • Cuckoo bumblebee (Psithyrus insularis) searching for pollen and nectar on sneezeweed (Dugaldia hoopsii).
  • I thought it was called sneezeweed because it bloomed at the same time as the notorious Ragweed and blame was misguided.
  • Whoever cares to learn from experience why this was called sneezeweed, must take a whiff of snuff made of the dried and powdered leaves.
  • Powdered disk flowers and leaves of this species have in the past been dried and used as snuff, thus giving rise to the common name of sneezeweed.
  • This sneezeweed is an erect, clump-forming, Missouri native perennial which occurs in moist soils along streams, ponds or ditches and in spring-fed meadows, prairie and wet open ground throughout most of the State Steyermark.

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