Baccharis sarothroides is a species of flowering shrub known by the common names broom baccharis and desert broom. This is a spreading  woody shrub usually sticky with glandular secretions. The small  thick leaves are a few centimeters long and are absent much of the year  giving the shrub a spindly  twiggy gray appearance. It flowers abundantly in white blooms with separate flower heads for male and female blossoms. This plant is native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States  where it is most common in the gravelly dry soils of the desert regions