Creosote Bush
Larrea tridentata (DC.) Coville
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- 4.0 m
Zygophyllaceae
Also called Greasewood, Chaparral, Creosotebush, Creosote bush
Formerly Covillea glutinosa, Covillea tridentata, Guaiacum mexicanum, Larrea glutinosa, and 6 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Desert or dry shrublandKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SW. & SC. U.S.A. to MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 99 cm to 3.0 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 4.0 mRead from PFAF, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -17.8 °C (USDA zone 7a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Gobernadora, Hediondilla
- root
- Háaxat, atukul, LATR2
- German
- Kreosotbusch
- Portuguese
- Chaparral
- Russian
- Ларрея трёхзубчатая, Креозотовый куст
- Swedish
- kreosotbuske
- Danish
- Tandet kreosotbusk
- Chinese
- 石炭酸灌木, 木餾油灌木, 三齒瓣團香木
- Chinese (China)
- 三齿拉雷亚灌木, 木馏油灌木, 三齿团香木
- Japanese
- クレオソートブッシュ
- French
- Créosotier, Arbre à créosote
- Czech
- Larea trojzubá
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- PFAF, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Larrea tridentata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.