wild buckwheat

American  

noun

1. umbrella plant.

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Etymology

Origin of wild buckwheat

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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wild buckwheat

Within a few feet, he stops and hunches over a weedy patch at the edge of the asphalt, where he identifies wild buckwheat, wood sorrel and chickweed.

From Washington Post

There are rules for prime farm lands, tribal government elections, gypsum wild buckwheat, car pools, surface mining, noise, personal protective devices.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the kernels reached the mill, they were put into machines called separators, to be separated from all companions such as grass seed, mustard seed, and wild buckwheat.

From How We are Fed A Geographical Reader by Chamberlain, James Franklin

Certain fields under the plow are always infested with "blind nettles," others with wild buckwheat, black blindweed, or cockle.

From A Year in the Fields by Burroughs, John

A. fasciculatum usually blooms in early summer, on dry, rocky hills, and is parasitic upon the roots of sagebrush, wild buckwheat, etc.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth