coyote brush

• coyote bush

coyote brush (plural coyote brushes)

1. The shrub Baccharis pilularis native to the western United States, some varieties of which are widely used there as a drought-tolerant groundcover.
   • 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 101:

     Soon neat rows of coyote brush rise on either side, their tops trimmed and even.