1. A creeping perennial plant with white flowers and compound leaves, native to Europe and Asia, often considered an invasive weed in gardens.
Usage: Also called bishop's weed or ground elder.; Botanical name: Aegopodium podagraria.

Examples

• Goutweed spreads rapidly through underground rhizomes and can quickly overtake a garden.
• The gardener struggled to remove the goutweed from the flower bed.
• Goutweed is difficult to control once it becomes established in a lawn.
• Many gardeners consider goutweed a persistent and unwanted invasive plant.
• The white flowers of goutweed bloom in early summer.