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n. - European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up.

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  • A brilliant carpet with its sage-green background and occasional dash of deeper green where patches of "filaree" covered the sandy soil!
  • We walk by flora that I have only seen in books – brittlebush and cheeseweed, filaree, jojoba.
  • In place of strong grasses these places are now covered for a few weeks in spring with a growth of a plant known as “filaree,” which, owing to the rapid maturing of its...
  • Good for nothin ', I'd been told, but to run cows on in winter, when the filaree and bunch grass are green.
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