chaparral

A region of shrubs, typically dry in the summer and rainy in the winter. The coast of the Mediterranean is such a region.

It was quite dark when, after an arduous climb, the sheriff made his tortuous way through the chaparral to the point where Anthony Garland should be stationed.

Have you ever been south of Monterey? / Barrancas carve the coastline / And the chaparral flows to the sea / 'Neath waves of golden sunshine

The foliage of creosote bush, Larrea divaricata, when used as a medicinal herb.