Dominant vegetation includes cottonwood, willow, ash, and tamarisk. The Pink flowered tamarisk, acacia and willow trees were common in gardens. The western hills are home to juniper, tamarisk, coarse grasses, and scrub plants. Invasive species include tumbleweeds, certain thistles, dandelions, and tamarisk. One can occasionally find juniper trees, single or large groups of "tamarisk" and small shrubs. The reed beds and tamarisk bushes along the rivers are also present. It breeds in dry lowlands with some shrubs, including tamarisk, and access to water. Tamarix parviflora is a species of tamarisk known by the common name smallflower tamarisk. The palace was built mainly by bricks, indigenous stones, tamarisk trunk and palm-leaf stalks. Its name comes from the presence of many tamarisk trees along the promenade. In the Old Testament, Saul's bones are buried under a tamarisk tree in Jabesh. They took the spoils and set them upon a tamarisk tree in honour of Athena. In Genesis 21&colon;33, Abraham is recorded to have "planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba". Carex colchica, tamarisk, rose hip, liquorice, etc. Pest populations of tamarisk in the United States can be dealt with in several ways.