We walk by flora that I have only seen in books – brittlebush and cheeseweed, filaree, jojoba.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing Acts]

A couple of exceptions are brittlebush when it occurs in pure stands, and extensive woodlands of foothill palo verde (Cercidium microphyllum).    From Wordnik.com.  [Adaptations of desert plants] Reference

Joshua Siskin: Stop and consider native foliage like the silvery brittlebush.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Bid to learn Indian culture, agriculture] Reference

Breezes should ruffle the wands of brittlebush flowers held high in tribute to the desert spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [azcentral.com | news] Reference

Further north, the trimmings shifted into mostly desert marigold and brittlebush, with the odd velvety green ocotillo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson Weekly] Reference

As David Myers scans the rocky slopes of this desert canyon, looking vainly past clumps of brittlebush for bighorn sheep, he imagines an enemy advancing across the crags.    From Wordnik.com.  [QandO] Reference

Dominant plants of the Mojave include creosotebush (Larrea tridentata), all-scale (Atriplex polycarpa), brittlebush (Encelia farinosa), desert holly (Atriplex hymenelytra), white burrobush (Hymenoclea salsola), and Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia), the most prominent endemic species in the region.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mojave desert] Reference