NOUN
- an American everlasting having foliage with soft wooly hairs and corymbose heads with pearly white bracts
- any of various plants of the genus Froelichia found in sandy soils and on rocky slopes in warmer regions of America; grown for their spikes of woolly white flowers
How To Use cottonweed In A Sentence
- We heard only the swirling water and the cold wind whistling through the tall cottonweeds.
- A few, such as summer cottonweed, grow so quickly and are so coarse [often with rather small flowers as well] that they are considered ‘weeds’ and are generally rejected by gardeners.
- I have horrible allergies when the cottonweed pollen is out.
- Six further species are in danger of extinction, i.e. marsh saxifrage, serrated wintergreen, meadow saffron, cottonweed, rough poppy and meadow saxifrage.
- The seven herbs vary from region to region and also from era to era, but today they commonly consist of the leaves of dropwort, shepherd's purse, cottonweed, chickweed, henbit, turnip, and radish.
