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Answer for the clue "Annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean ", 10 letters:
cheatgrass

Word definitions for cheatgrass in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. annual or winter annual grass with softly hairy leaves of the Mediterranean [syn: downy brome , downy bromegrass , downy cheat , downy chess , drooping brome , Bromus tectorum ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. ''Bromus tectorum'', drooping brome, native to Europe, thought to create an ecology prone to annual fires in many US areas.

Usage examples of cheatgrass.

The deserts and prairies are choked with mustard and cheatgrass and European beach grass.

This first patch of cheatgrass was in southern British Columbia, Canada, in 1889.

Today, cheatgrass dominates the inland deserts from Canada to Nevada, covering an area over twice the size of the state of Nebraska and spreading by thousands of acres per year.

And every year it burns, there's more cheatgrass and less anything else.