It is bear grass, harvested mostly for use in dried-flower bouquets.

Frances Manuel, who lives in the Papago reservation, west of Tucson, makes baskets of coiled bear grass.

It is known by a few common names, including bear grass, squaw grass, soap grass, quip-quip, and Indian basket grass.

Delicate bear grass, tipped with abundant white lace, nodded along the edges of the trail.

In a mountain cabin beyond a dusty road lined with bear grass and goatsbeard, she plays and wins a game of Trivial Pursuit.

The materials he uses include bear grass, yucca, devil's claw, and gourds.

According to sources, the name means "town in the bent grass" or "is from the place where the bear grass grows".

Ms. Grimley also suggested using bear grass or wheat, apples, pears, small eggplants, white squash or "mushrooms on toothpicks."

The elongated leaves of X. tenax, commonly known as bear grass, were used for basket weaving by the Native Americans.

I turned my head so I could look straight ahead, and I saw a clump of bear grass there, and to my left another.