A type of plant or weed that grows low to the ground or has a downward-growing tendency; specifically, certain low-growing weedy plants.
From 'down' plus 'weed' (Old English 'weod'). A descriptive botanical or regional term for plants characterized by low or prostrate growth.
Plant names often simply describe what plants look like or do—'downweed' tells you the plant's whole story. This is how folk taxonomy worked before scientists got fancy Latin binomial names.
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