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plural pissabeds
The dandelion, formerly much used for its diuretic properties. quotations examples
Of flowers there was no trace, save of the flowers that plant themselves, or never die […] The chief of these was the pissabed.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959
The tufted hillock […] had no buildings on and only golden clumps of piss-the-bed that were not yet gone into misty balls of seed.
2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, published 2016, page 139
(dialect) Any of various other wild plants with diuretic properties; bluet, oxeye daisy, etc. examples