| baccharis | (n) shrubs of western hemisphere often having honey-scented flowers followed by silky thistlelike heads of tiny fruits; often used for erosion control, Syn. genus Baccharis |
| coyote brush | (n) widely spreading evergreen shrub of southwestern United States with flower heads in a leafy panicle, Syn. kidney wort, chaparral broom, coyote bush, Baccharis pilularis |
| groundsel tree | (n) a shrub of salt marshes of eastern and south central North America and West Indies; fruit is surrounded with white plumelike hairy tufts, Syn. cotton-seed tree, groundsel bush, Baccharis halimifolia, consumption weed |
| mule fat | (n) California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer, Syn. Baccharis viminea |