bullweed

English

Etymology

bole (“a stem”) + weed

Noun

bullweed (countable and uncountable, plural bullweeds)

1. Knapweed.
   • 1906, Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture., The Monthly Bulletin of the Division of Zoology, page 116:

     For this reason it is most excellent practice to mow the weeds of Lambsquarter, Ragweed, Hog Ragweed, Bullweed, Artichoke, and in fact all other weeds large enough to sustain such borers – mowing them about the middle of the summer and again the latter part of August.

   • 1974, John Egerton, The Americanization of Dixie: the Southernization of America, page 67:

     Along the narrow creekstone roads, the winter landscape is etched in myriad shades of brown — sedge grass and bullweed stalks, barren trees on a carpet of fallen leaves, decaying shells of unpainted houses staring blankly through vacant windows.

   • 1997, Barbara Hambly, The Witches of Wenshar:

     Around the tower, the Citadel lay spread out like a peasant's counterpane of blackish grays and maroons and a dozen faded hues of homespun buff, stitched here and there with the dull green of dusty bullweed and cactus.

References

• “bullweed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.