Rabbitbrush – Skoomp (Click here for the pronunciation).
Rabbitbrush boasts many bright golden-yellow flowers in the late summer to mid-fall that also indicate pine nut picking season. Rabbitbrush was used as traditional chewing gum, as well as for making dolls referred to as Skoomp’um dolls, typically made by the Shivwits Band of Paiutes. Rabbitbrush can also be used to smudge the home in very special cases.