1. Pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo
   "rabbit bush dominated the desert landscape";
   - rabbit brush, Chrysothamnus nauseosus

Derived forms: rabbit bushes

Type of: goldenbush

Part of: Chrysothamnus, genus Chrysothamnus