brittle bush

brittle bush
noun
fragrant rounded shrub of southwestern United States and adjacent Mexico having brittle stems and small crowded blue-green leaves and yellow flowers; produces a resin used in incense and varnish and in folk medicine
Hypernyms: ↑wildflower, ↑wild flower
Member Holonyms: ↑Encelia, ↑genus Encelia

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