- ocotillo, coachwhip, Jacob's staff, vine cactus, Fouquieria splendens - desert shrub of southwestern United States and Mexico having slender naked spiny branches that after the rainy season put forth foliage and clusters of red flowers
--1 is a kind of candlewood
--1 is a member of Fouquieria, genus Fouquieria - coachwhip, coachwhip snake, Masticophis flagellum - a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico; tail resembles a braided whip
--2 is a kind of whip-snake, whip snake