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silkgrass

n. valuable forage grass of dry upland areas and plains of western North America to northern Mexico [syn: mountain rice, silk grass, Indian millet, Oryzopsis hymenoides]

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From it grew pines, cottonwoods, and clumps of spiky silkgrass waving stalks of yellow-white flowers.

There was too much stone, and the silkgrass would cut their lips as they grazed.

Black smudges on pedestals of rocky soil showed where tufts of silkgrass had burned when the creature rolled over them during its flaming death throes, and it'd seared a broad wedge of the slope's juicier vegetation as well.