stickweed

In the dimming light he knelt and tugged at tough little hummocks of stickweed that were beginning to invade his garden.

It has also been called Annual Ragweed, Bitterweed, Blackweed, Carrot Weed, Hay Fever Weed, Roman Wormwood, Stammerwort, Stickweed, Tassel Weed, and American Wormwood.

The fire did, however, destroy research materials relating to plant regeneration on Mount St. Helens after the volcanic eruption, materials relating to the restoration of wetlands and prairies, and a cache of stickweed plants which were intended to be transplanted to the Cascade Mountains to replenish dwindling wild stocks.