# Greasewood

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For the census-designated place in Arizona, see [Greasewood, Arizona](/source/Greasewood,_Arizona).

**Greasewood** is a common name shared by several plants:

- *[Adenostoma fasciculatum](/source/Adenostoma_fasciculatum)* is a plant with white flowers that is native to [Oregon](/source/Oregon), [Nevada](/source/Nevada), [California](/source/California), and northern [Baja California](/source/Baja_California_Peninsula). This [shrub](/source/Shrub) is one of the most widespread plants of the [chaparral](/source/Chaparral) [biome](/source/Biome).
- *[Baccharis sarothroides](/source/Baccharis_sarothroides)* is a [shrub](/source/Shrub) with tiny green blooms native to the [Sonoran Desert](/source/Sonoran_Desert) of northern [Mexico](/source/Mexico) and the southwestern United States, commonly found in gravelly dry soils and disturbed areas.
- *[Glossopetalon spinescens](/source/Glossopetalon_spinescens)* is a species of shrub known by the common names spiny greasewood and Nevada greasewood. The shrub is native to the western United States and northern Mexico, where it grows in mountainous habitats, often on limestone substrates. It has small white-petalled flowers in the leaf [axils](/source/Axil).
- *[Gutierrezia](/source/Gutierrezia)*, generally called snakeweeds or matchweeds, annual, perennial, or shrub-like plants with white or yellow flowers, of western North America and western South America.
- *[Larrea tridentata](/source/Larrea_tridentata)* is a prominent [species](/source/Species) in the [Mojave](/source/Mojave_Desert), [Sonoran](/source/Sonoran_Desert), and [Chihuahuan](/source/Chihuahuan_Desert) Deserts. Its [flowers](/source/Flower) are up to 25 millimetres (0.98 in) in diameter, with five yellow petals.
- *[Sarcobatus vermiculatus](/source/Sarcobatus_vermiculatus)* is a green-leaved shrub found from southeastern [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia) and southwest [Alberta](/source/Alberta), [Canada](/source/Canada) south through the drier regions of the [United States](/source/United_States) (east to [North Dakota](/source/North_Dakota) and west [Texas](/source/Texas), west to eastern [Washington](/source/Washington_(U.S._state)) and eastern [California](/source/California)) to northern [Mexico](/source/Mexico) ([Coahuila](/source/Coahuila)). It is a [halophyte](/source/Halophyte), usually found in sunny, flat areas around the margins of [playas](/source/Dry_lake).

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