Sentence examples for desert shrub from inspiring English sources

The bad news: This is a nasty, spiky desert shrub.

About one-tenth of Arizona is forested, one-fourth is woodland, one-fourth is grassland, and the rest is desert shrub.

In a pair of eerie, solarized prints from 1989, "Cooling Tower" and "Cactus," Mr. Wood compares a nuclear-plant structure and a spiky desert shrub.

In the Tien Shan they are characterized by ephemeral vegetation growths that die out at the beginning of summer; xerophytic (drought-tolerant) grasses, wormwood, and species of the desert shrub genus Ephedra are generally distributed.

And, later that summer, his cry found its way to Yulex, an Arizona-based company working to resurrect a low-energy, low-toxin recipe for rubber from guayule, a desert shrub native to North America.

Among the candidates are Russian dandelion and guayule, a desert shrub found in the south-western American states and in Mexico, says Joe Walter, a tyre expert at the University of Akron in Ohio.Food byproducts are also being considered as ingredients for new tyres.

Many buildings on the base use xeriscaping outdoors, with small rocks and desert shrubs.

About four-fifths of Wyoming is covered with grasses and semidesert to desert shrubs.

The neighborhood is a sparsely populated community of winding roads lined with desert shrubs, flowers and a variety of cactuses, including the saguaro for which the region is known.

I set off in reverse, walking from the bright, windswept capital, Valverde, the end of the Bajada, along the wide path of the procession, following it south on to higher ground, where black volcanic scree and arid desert shrubs were replaced, suddenly, by lush, mossy forests of cypress and heather.

Glancing through the windshield at the square-crowned fenders and the desert shrubs beyond, I buckled into the passenger seat as Mr. Walliser demonstrated the small knob on the steering wheel used to select the driving mode settings: electric, hybrid, sport and race.