Turpentine-bush

Description:

Medium-sized shrub mostly about one meter in diameter. Dark green resinous leaves are needle-like - fleshy and more-or-less cylindrical. Shrubs may resemble a small conifer and indeed emit piney, resinous odor on being crushed. Bright yellow flowers in smallish heads contrast nicely with the dark green foliage; rays and disc flowers yellow. Rays sometimes few and short. Blooms late in summer into autumn.

Habitat:

Sabino Canyon is a natural desert oasis located in Tucson’s Coronado National Forest and is home to spectacular desert landscapes and abundant wildlife. During the winter and summer rainy seasons, pools of water form in rocky outcroppings that wind up among hillsides resplendent with palo verde trees, cholla and prickly pear cactus and graceful groves of ocotillo.