REDROOT

" new jersey tea, ceanothus americanus (family rhamnaceae); (also, with distinguishing word) any of the other shrubs of this genus.

a swamp plant, lachnanthes caroliniana (family haemodoraceae), with hairy yellow flowers, also called paint-root.

(more fully ""redroot pigweed"") a kind of amaranth, amaranthus retroflexus.

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