For the census-designated place in Arizona, see Greasewood, Arizona.
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 25 millimetres (0.98 in) 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 eastern 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
Flowers of Adenostoma fasciculatum
Close up of dried flowers of Baccharis sarothroides
Flowers of Glossopetalon spinescens
Flowers of Gutierrezia sarothrae
Flowers of Larrea tridentata
Cone-like structures containing the female flowers of Sarcobatus vermiculatus
Index of plants with the same common name
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Greasewood is a common name shared by several plants: Adenostoma fasciculatum is a plant with white flowers that is native to Oregon, Nevada, California...
considered to be a single species. Common names for S. vermiculatus include greasewood, seepwood, and saltbush. Traditionally, Sarcobatus has been treated in...
Agapema galbina, the greasewood moth, is a moth in the family Saturniidae. It was described in 1860. "Greasewood Moth (Agapema galbina)". iNaturalist...
Larrea tridentata, called creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and gobernadora (Spanish for "governess") in Mexico,...
Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church is a historic pioneer church located 5 miles (8 kilometers) west of Adams, Oregon. It was built by volunteers...
Adenostoma fasciculatum, commonly known as chamise or greasewood, is a flowering plant native to California and Baja California. This shrub is one of the...
saltbrush, and green rabbitbrush. Trees are not found in this community. Big greasewood is the dominant shrub in more saline areas or where the water table is...
buckbrush, quinine brush, and less commonly deerbrush, blackbrush, and greasewood. Some of these names are shared with other species. Purshia tridentata...
Agapema anona, commonly known as the greasewood silkmoth or Mexican agapema, is a species of giant silkmoth in the family Saturniidae. The MONA or Hodges...
Area Logan Wash Mine Natural Area Lookout Mountain Natural Area Lower Greasewood Creek Natural Area McElmo Natural Area Mexican Cut Natural Area Mini-Wheeler...
a stream in Alberta, Canada. Grease Creek was so named on account of greasewood in the area. List of rivers of Alberta "Grease Creek". Geographical Names...
cactus, prickly pear cactus, desert spoon, creosote bush, sagebrush, and greasewood. Many native cacti grow throughout Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and west Texas...
Mexico is high desert with cold winters, featuring sagebrush, shadescale, greasewood, and other plants adapted to the saline and seleniferous soil. The mountainous...
flowering shrub known by the common names broom baccharis, desertbroom, greasewood, rosin-bush and groundsel in English and "escoba amarga" or "romerillo"...
California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, where it feeds on the roots of greasewood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus) and saltbush (Atriplex). Bezark, Larry G. A...
Nevada greasewood (in California), spring greasebush and spiny greasewood,[citation needed] depending on location/source. The name 'greasewood' is also...
Elder County, Tooele County and Nevada Greasewood County January 5, 1856 January 17, 1862 Named for the greasewood plant growing in the area Box Elder County...
generally as snakeweeds or matchweeds. Some species have been called greasewood. They are annual or perennial plants or subshrubs with yellow or white...
Old Apostolic Lutheran Church Events Summer services Culture Songs and Hymns of Zion Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church Læstadiuspörtet v t e...
Uncultivated land is often covered with "chico", low brush such as rabbitbrush, greasewood and other woody species. Cropland is typically irrigated with large (1⁄4 mile...
8 km) of the sandy shoreline of the Salton Sea would have a saltbush/greasewood (40) vegetation type and a Great Basin shrubland (7) vegetation form....
common plants of the Mojave Desert include creosote bush, blackbrush, greasewood and saltbush. Higher elevations host Western juniper and Pinyon pine....
Community School Dishchii'bikoh Community School First Mesa Elementary School Greasewood Springs Community School Hopi Day School Hotevilla Bacavi Community School...
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Flowers of Adenostoma fasciculatum
Close up of dried flowers of Baccharis sarothroides
Flowers of Glossopetalon spinescens
Flowers of Gutierrezia sarothrae
Flowers of Larrea tridentata
Cone-like structures containing the female flowers of Sarcobatus vermiculatus
