yellowwort

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A European annual plant, Chlora perfoliata, of the gentian family. It is a very glaucous plant, about a foot high, the stem-leaves in pairs and connate-perfoliate, the flowers bright-yellow in loose terminal cymes. Also called yellow centaury.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.