tarweed

The tarweed clung to my socks, and a happy little bee hovered by my elbow.

Under the common designation of "tarweed," plants belonging to two different genera—Madia and Hemizonia—and comprising thirty or forty species, may be found.

Lysander, tired of waiting, came striding through the tarweed, with his hoe on his shoulder.

He looked down upon his clothes, stuccoed with tarweed burrs and wet mud.

Grasshoppers whirred everywhere; squirrels whistled; occasional little dust-devils whirled up the now thoroughly dry river-bed and the atmosphere was redolent of the aroma of dust and tarweed.