Brittlebush is drought deciduous and produces morphologically different types of leaves with seasonal changes in temperature and moisture.
Leaves are few, small, and densely hairy.
This one, near the restrooms, may have had access to water from leaky pipes or roadside drainage. In a very good year, they look like this at White Tanks, too. April 2000 looks more promising, judging from the flower buds seen here, early in the month. Winter rains were late but plentiful.