What is "soapweed"

Usage examples of "soapweed".

The flower spikes of the soapweed stuck up like splintered sticks, the seed pods dry and dark-looking against the winter grass.

Out on the high plains the country was turning green once more, she felt a little cheered by that, and the weather was starting to warm up again and she sat looking out the window at the sagebrush and soapweed scattered in dark clumps in the pastures, and there were the first faint starts of blue grama and timothy.

Binny was sitting in a copper bath with only the shallowest depth of water to cover her, cleaning herself with soapweed and a cloth.

Assured at last of privacy, she stripped and climbed into the tub, scrubbing herself vigorously with soapweed, lying back in the hot water with a sigh of luxurious content.

This work she had done since she was old enough to rub soapweed on a saddle and polish it with oil.

Some bleached bison heads with horns lay scattered about the place, and a cluster of soapweeds grew there--God knows how!

We gathered a quantity of the dry sword-bladed soapweeds, and with one of the blankets made a lean-to shelter against the steep hillside.