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• n  annual of southwestern United States having rigid woody branches with sticky foliage and yellow flowers

• When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their bootheels, began scratching in the dirt with broomweed stalks.
• It moves down Interstate 20 in a 20-car- and-camper caravan and into the still brown land of broomweed and tumbleweed, thorn trees and mesquite and prickly-pear cactus.

• broom-weed
• Gutierrezia texana