A botanist, Dr. Frank C. Vasek, recently estimated the age of the ordinary-looking shrub, a creosote bush, at 11,700 years, which would make it far older than the previous record-holder ...

There’s nothing that evokes the Sonoran desert more than the smell of creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) after the rain. These remarkable plants are native to all of the North American deserts ...

A Creosote plant in the Mojave desert is over 12,000 years old. The creosote bush is one of the slowest growing plants documented, an essential survival strategy in an arid desert. It's only ...

The creosote bush, also known as greasewood, flourishes on public lands and in backyards with desert vegetation. It’s known for giving off a pungent odor after rainfalls. The book “Sonoran ...

Known scientifically as Larrea tridentata, and in common parlance as the creosote bush, it produces small, pretty yellow flowers in spring and summer. But it is the pleasantly pungent smell ...

Treatments will occur on BLM, State trust and private lands within Doña Ana, Hidalgo and Otero counties, where creosote bush densities have surpassed historic, naturally occurring levels.

It was also a good year for native bees, the primary pollinators of creosote bush with 20 specialist species, and the team was able to collect a lot of data on ploidy-specific visitation. The abundant ...