How To Use Greasewood In A Sentence
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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
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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
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Today, in the summer twilight at Bird Cloud, the greasewood and rabbitbrush hunch themselves into giant marmots, crippled elk.
Bird Cloud
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A tiny fire of dead greasewood branches warms my hands and perfumes the air with pungent woodsmoke.
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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.
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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
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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
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Floodplains have alkaline soils that support greasewood, alkali sacaton, seepweed, and shadscale.
Ecoregions of Utah (EPA)
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Vegetation is dominated by black greasewood, spiny hopsage, bud sagebrush, Wyoming big sagebrush, inland saltgrass, alkali sacaton, and basin wildrye.
Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
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In addition, they could swim the roughest rivers, pack heavy equipment, and browse on greasewood or thorny brush that other animals could not eat.
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greasewood," which is so much like the sage-brush that the difference amounts to little.
Roughing It
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Low gnarly clumps of chaparral--manzanita and greasewood, mainly--bordered the old highway.
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The plant is that locally known as "greasewood" (Scarobatus vermiculatus). —
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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I was on my way home from Lander, having borrowed the region's fur and skull collections, when I spotted the roughleg swooping over the greasewood along the highway.
Grouse Diary Entry
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A tiny fire of dead greasewood branches warms my hands and perfumes the air with pungent woodsmoke.
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Juniper, pinion, greasewood, Mormon tea, and scrubby brush grow sparingly on the rocky terrain.
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Creosote (Larrea tridentata), also known as greasewood, is the most common shrub in three of the four north American deserts.
Tucson Citizen
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We call it "pitch-pine". similar to the south's "greasewood" You can tell the pitch-pine by the aroma.
Start a Survival Fire With a Bullet
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Every few yards there was a charred greasewood bush.
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Vegetation of alkali sacaton, fourwing saltbush, and greasewood is found in the low areas.
Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)
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The arid climate (just 6 inches of precipitation per year) supports desert shrubs and grasses: greasewood, Gardner saltbush, shadscale, alkali sacaton, and saltgrass.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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There is not a tree of any kind in the deserts, for hundreds of miles -- there is no vegetation at all in a regular desert, except the sage-brush and its cousin the "greasewood," which is so much like the sage-brush that the difference amounts to little.
Roughing It
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In addition, they could swim the roughest rivers, pack heavy equipment, and browse on greasewood or thorny brush that other animals could not eat.
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Alkaline flat Trees are absent in the salty flats that surround the lake, but two shrubs, greasewood and rabbit-brush, are common.
