slgwv's photos with the keyword: Larrea tridentata

A.k.a. greasewood. Larrea tridentata . Southern Nevada, near the tiny town of Moapa about 50 miles NNE of Las Vegas. This is a very typical shrub of the Mojave desert. In the adjacent pictures you can see how it tends to occur evenly spaced, almost as though deliberately planted, on an otherwise nearly barren desert surface. It blooms in the spring, as seen here. Here's the Wikipedia write-up: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creosote_bush