consumption weed

Noun consumption weed has 1 sense

• consumption weed(n = noun.plant) baccharis halimifolia, cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, groundsel tree - a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts;
is a member of baccharis, genus baccharis
is a kind of bush, shrub