Crossword clues for greasewood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
greasewood \greasewood\ n. A low hardy much-branched spiny shrub ( Sarcobatus vermiculatus) common in alkaline soils of Western America.
Syn: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several spiny shrubs containing oil, of the genus (taxlink Sarcobatus genus noshow=1), native to the United States. 2 chamise.
WordNet
n. low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America [syn: black greasewood, Sarcobatus vermiculatus]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 182
Land area (2000): 5.342960 sq. miles (13.838202 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.342960 sq. miles (13.838202 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29430
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 35.525467 N, 109.865005 W
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Greasewood
Wikipedia
Greasewood is a common name shared by several plants:
- Adenostoma fasciculatum is a plant with white flowers that is native to Oregon, Nevada, California, and northern Baja California. This shrub is one of the most widespread plants of the chaparral biome.
- Baccharis sarothroides is a shrub with tiny green blooms native to the Sonoran Desert of northern Mexico and the southwestern United States, commonly found in gravelly dry soils and disturbed areas.
- Glossopetalon spinescens is a species of shrub known by the common names spiny greasewood and Nevada greasewood. The shrub is native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in mountainous habitats, often on limestone substrates. It has small white-petalled flowers in the leaf axils.
- Gutierrezia, generally called snakeweeds or matchweeds, annual, perennial, or shrub-like plants with white or yellow flowers, of western North America and western South America.
- Larrea tridentata is a prominent species in the Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan Deserts. Its flowers are up to in diameter, with five yellow petals.
- Sarcobatus vermiculatus is a green-leaved shrub found from southeastern British Columbia and southwest Alberta, Canada south through the drier regions of the United States (east to North Dakota and west Texas, west to central Washington and eastern California) to northern Mexico ( Coahuila). It is a halophyte, usually found in sunny, flat areas around the margins of playas.
Plants called greasewood
fasciculatum 2.jpg|Flowers of Adenostoma fasciculatum up of dried flowers of Baccharis sarothroides spinescens var aridum 4.jpg|Flowers of Glossopetalon spinescens sarothrae 9.jpg|Flowers of Gutierrezia sarothrae of Larrea tridentata vermiculatus (4018712194).jpg|Cone-like structures containing the female flowers of Sarcobatus vermiculatus
Usage examples of "greasewood".
A slab of micalike rock had been hung on the greasewood studs, making a crude mirror.
But Sarna made it come alive, giving names to the scrub - greasewood, honey mesquite, rabbit brush -directing our eyes toward rare oases of activity - a flock of birds feasting upon a bitter cherry bush, an alligator lizard scurrying across the spines of a fan palm - extolling the beauty of a single, time-ravaged digger pine, describing the savagery of a hard winter in the high desert and the resilience of those creatures that survive.
It is much shallower by the time it emerges into Chinle Valley and becomes a mere drainage wash as it meanders northward toward Utah through the Greasewood Flats.
Most, shy beneath the sage and greasewood and creosote bush, I did not recognize by name.
It consists of live oak, pinion, mesquite, desert willow, greasewood, sage brush, palmilla, maguey, yucca and cacti and is mostly evergreen.
So a quarter mile out, as the range began to rise at a steeper angle, Longarm led the pony off to the other side of the trail, tethered it to lower but lessferocious greasewood, and gave it a hatful of canteen water before he put the wet Stetson back on his head and started legging it the rest of the way, saddle gun at port arms.
The land was lower, thinly grown now with mesquite, small sagebrush, greasewood, and ocotillo that rattled like dry bones in the wind.
The air was no longer heavy with the perfume of roses and orange-blossoms, but came to their nostrils laden with the pungent odors of yerba santa and greasewood and sage.