Characteristically, the basin floors have strongly saline and very alkaline soils that support black greasewood, inland saltgrass, bud sagebrush, shadscale, alkali sacaton, rushes, basin wildrye, bottlebrush squirreltail, and cheatgrass.
en.wikipedia.org The inflorescence looks similar to a long spike or a bottlebrush.
en.wikipedia.org The trunk was topped with a plume of long, grass-like, microphyllous leaves, so that the plant looked somewhat like a tall, forked bottlebrush.
en.wikipedia.org The white, pink-tinged bottlebrush flowers have a deliciously sophisticated scent, like wintersweet; they open above the broad, toothed leaves in winter and are followed by interesting reddish-pink fruits.
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