iodine bush

iodine bush
noun
: a shrub (Allenrolfia occidentalis) of the family Chenopodiaceae with fleshy jointed stems, leaves resembling scales, and flowers in crowded spikes that grows in moist saline soils in the southwestern United States and is used for winter grazing — called also burroweed, California greasewood, pickleweed

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