NOUN
- any of numerous plants of the genus Coreopsis having a profusion of showy usually yellow daisylike flowers over long periods; North and South America
How To Use tickweed In A Sentence
- Cassie whirled about, dropped the stickweed, and came running, laughing. The Dollmaker
- Some species overwinter near the roots of weeds such as stickweed, plantain, and fleabane.
- Also watch for cuts and abrasions from things like barbed wire fence, old machinery left hidden under tall grass, stickweeds and burrs.
- I eased through the tall stickweeds and could see the rear half of the deer's body behind a tree 30 yards away.
- They all stick on stickweed. Times, Sunday Times
- Vegetation is wild oat, cheatgrass, flatspine stickweed, California buckthorn, whiteleaf manzanita, honeysuckle, brackenfern, hedgehog dogstail, chaparral coffeeberry, toyon, Pacific poison oak, interior and canyon live oak, Pacific madrone, and scattered ponderosa pine, foothill pine, incense cedar and California black oak.
- Shouting loud curses, he grabs stickweed and begins attaching it to my bare torso. Times, Sunday Times
- Gertie heard her cries of “Sooey, Sooey,” saw the stickweed break the air, but for all her fierce fighting Cassie was losing ground before the enemy, running backward at times down the hill. The Dollmaker
- She saw her at last, far up the field, the hickory doll on one arm while with the other she fought something with a dried stickweed longer than she was tall. The Dollmaker
- A closely related species, Wingstem, is similar in appearance but has alternately arranged leaves unlike those of stickweed.
