Definition of "sneezeweed" []

• Any of several New World herbs of the genus Helenium of the composite family, having yellow to red-purple rayed flower heads. (noun)
• See sneezewort. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I thought it was called sneezeweed because it bloomed at the same time as the notorious Ragweed and blame was misguided."
• "Whoever cares to learn from experience why this was called sneezeweed, must take a whiff of snuff made of the dried and powdered leaves."
• "This sneezeweed is an erect, clump-forming, Missouri native perennial which occurs in moist soils along streams, ponds or ditches and in spring-fed meadows, prairie and wet open ground throughout most of the State Steyermark."