burnweed

plural burnweeds

1. uncountableusuallyAny of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites.

   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.

   2018 July 31, Marie Viljoen, “American Burnweed”, in Forage, Harvest, Feast: A Wild Inspired Cuisine, page 17

   1 more example

   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.

   1989, I. D. Macdonald, A Biological inventory and evaluation of the Oriskany Sandstone and Woodlands area of natural and scientific interest, Toronto Ministry of Natural Resources, page 62

   Synonyms: fireweed