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n. - Annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean.

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  • In Nevada, the birds are challenged by an invasive species, cheatgrass, which is prone to frequent wildfires that burn up native sagebrush.
  • The common elements firefighters like to see eliminated on any property are dry grasses, such as cheatgrass, and dead bushes and trees.
  • Kinda insignificant compared to the cheatgrass problem we have around there.
  • The highly flammable cheatgrass brome also greatly increases the incidence of fire.
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