Creosote (Larrea tridentata), also known as greasewood, is the most common shrub in three of the four north American deserts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tucson Citizen] Reference

We call it "pitch-pine". similar to the south's "greasewood" You can tell the pitch-pine by the aroma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Start a Survival Fire With a Bullet] Reference

The plant is that locally known as "greasewood" (Scarobatus vermiculatus). —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806] Reference

"greasewood," which is so much like the sage-brush that the difference amounts to little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

A gentle ridgeline out in the greasewood, barely drivable now.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

And a real strong incentive to go out into the sage and greasewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

And its mother, bedded in the greasewood just 30 meters father away.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

A small flat area in the gully bottom supports several greasewood plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

And immediately feel the sharp point of a thorn, probably from greasewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The lump of #7 is almost, but not quite, hidden in the greasewood to the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

All they had to do was to gather some greasewood for the fire, and start to cook.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

Finally, almost in desperation, I tried dead branches of the abundant greasewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Nothing but sagebrush, greasewood, mesquite and cactus; not even a sprill of grass!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tabitha at Ivy Hall] Reference

Coming out of the greasewood desert, heading up into the hills and onto the Divide.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

I coasted down the road until I found a place to pull off behind a clump of greasewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Till the Butchers Cut Him Down]

We spend up to an hour or so, cruising the sage and greasewood looking for two orphans.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

They stood there around the greasewood fire, trying to understand clearly what had happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

A clear trail led up a dusty, gravelly slope, upon which scant greasewood and cactus appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

He lighted a stick of greasewood at the fire, and looked about his part of the sleeping ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X] Reference

And the bones and hide of Hope, down in the sage and greasewood to the west, south of the truck.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

The floor was level and thickly overgrown with long, dead grass and dead greasewood, as dry as tinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

The characteristic plants of these deserts are sage, mesquite, greasewood, and a great variety of cacti.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference

The high plateaus are generally treeless, but are covered with such shrubs as greasewood and sage-brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Soon the trees have all disappeared and such plants as the greasewood, cactus, and agave take their place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

Land which under Nature's treatment supports only a scanty growth of sagebrush or greasewood, and over which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference

It was on the left among the greasewood bushes, and there we put up our paulins for shelter on oars as before.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

Once up, Slone found himself upon a wide, barren plateau of glaring red rock and clumps of greasewood and cactus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference

Our Camp 44 was in a little valley about a quarter of a mile wide, the bottom covered with cedars and greasewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

There was a hot breeze that seemed to intensify the heat of the sun and brought the aromatic scent of the greasewood.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference

Some one had thrown an armful of greasewood on the fire, and it blazed up brightly, disclosing the countenances of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis] Reference

Over a fire of greasewood, while the hobbled ponies rolled on the ground, the bacon was soon sizzling and the coffee brewing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

The ponies had been staked out not far from the fire, which was now burning brightly from the amount of greasewood piled on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

They had coverings for the night, and greasewood shrubs, as well as a tree here and there amid the foothills, offered fuel for a fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference

Paradise Valley, a plain desert strewn with greasewood and chamiso; and down in the floor of Death Valley is, or rather was, Greenland.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference