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As per the "Hotel California" lyrics: “On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair/Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the [air]...."

Here's some more background into the term "colitas" (quelites).

My partner and I came about this kind of a backwards way. I was [studying] plants prized by local curanderas ([female] folk healers) of the Northern New Mexico/San [Luis] Valley area of Colorado, and came upon "quelites," pronounced "Keh-LEE-tehs." The term specifically refers to a local weed that grows prolifically, colloquially known as "lambsquarters." Further research found quelites is a [Mexican]/American term for any [wild] green. We've also seen it as a Spanish translation on a bag of spinach from the grocery store. My partner remarked one [day], "I know where I've heard that term before," and sang off the first two lines of the Hotel California song, thus the connection. Quelites and colitas are phonetically identical. The term is used in different geographic regions to refer to specific plants that grow locally, but, much [like] common names in English, can mean quite different species of plants.

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