snakeweed

Any of various plants, such as bistort, reputed to cure snakebite.

The bistort, Polygonum Bistorta, a perennial herb of the northern parts of both hemispheres. Its root is a powerful astringent, sometimes employed in medicine. Also adder’s-wort and snakewort. See bistort.

The Virginia snakeroot. See snakeroot.

Vaguely, any of the weedy plants among which snakes are supposed to abound.

A kind of knotweed (Polygonum Bistorta).

The Virginia snakeroot. See snakeroot.

Any of various, unrelated plants reputed to cure snakebite.

A poisonous American plant of the genus Gutierrezia.

low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads