coyote brush

noun

variants or less commonly coyote bush

: a prostrate spreading or erect smooth evergreen shrub (Baccharis pilularis) of the southwestern U.S. having ovoid flower heads in a leafy panicle made up of sessile clusters

called also kidneywort

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