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• Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
• Another feature of the chaparral often occupies the field entirely to itself, viz., the chamisal or greasewood (_Adenostoma fasciculatum_, Hook, and Arn.). The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
• Today, in the summer twilight at Bird Cloud, the greasewood and rabbitbrush hunch themselves into giant marmots, crippled elk. Bird Cloud
• A tiny fire of dead greasewood branches warms my hands and perfumes the air with pungent woodsmoke.
• Beyond the asphalt the land was parched brown by the heat, and there were no trees, just stubby greasewood bushes and low grass, with an occasional spiky yucca or flat cactus.
• Paradise Valley, a plain desert strewn with greasewood and chamiso; and down in the floor of Death Valley is, or rather was, Greenland. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
• Cottonwoods along the rivers made the tallest vegetative layer, and on the surrounding prairies grew shoulder-high sage and greasewood, punctuated by the bunchgrasses close to the ground. Bird Cloud
• Floodplains have alkaline soils that support greasewood, alkali sacaton, seepweed, and shadscale. Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)
• Vegetation is dominated by black greasewood, spiny hopsage, bud sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, inland saltgrass, alkali sacaton, and basin wildrye. Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
• In addition, they could swim the roughest rivers, pack heavy equipment, and browse on greasewood or thorny brush that other animals could not eat.