NOUN
- any of several yellow-flowered plants of the genus Packera; often placed in genus Senecio
- American ragwort with yellow flowers
How To Use butterweed In A Sentence
- Layne's butterweed often grows in gaps in chaparral.
- Among them, butterweed is a cool-season annual that usually grows to 18 to 20 inches tall.
- Layne's butterweed grows in open rocky areas of gabbro and serpentine soils within chaparral plant communities.
- Common herbs include butterweed (Senecio glabellus), jewelweed (Impatiens capensis), and royal fern (Osmunda regalis). Mississippi lowland forests
- Streambank butterweed is found from British Columbia south to California, and east to Saskatchewan and New Mexico.
- Up close they were head-high in a riot of color: red paintbrush, lavender fleabane, hot-pink fireweed, white cow parsnip, lacy green false hellebore, the flashy red of chokecherries, white pearls of baneberry, rich purple huckleberries, fierce yellows of butterweed and arnica. Blood Lure
- Tall butterweed also has well developed upper leaves and is in much drier habitats.
