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  • noun A species of grass, Elytrigia repens

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  • After a season of neglect, even these tough flowers were losing ground to the bindweed and quackgrass and spurge.

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  • Other plants also are "totally tied up with our culture," he says, even reviled weeds like dandelions, once considered a decorative herb, and noxious grasses such as crabgrass and quackgrass, used to fuel the engines of commerce - horses and mules.

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  • The quackgrass has grown tall and mourning doves frequently visit him.

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  • "Remove persistent weeds such as blackberry, bindweed, morning glory or quackgrass that composting might not smother."

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  • Don't add weeds that have gone to seed or aggressive perennial weeds like creeping Charley, bindweed, or quackgrass.

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  • "Remove persistent weeds such as blackberry, bindweed, morning glory or quackgrass that composting might not smother."

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  • Don't add weeds that have gone to seed or aggressive perennial weeds like creeping Charley, bindweed, or quackgrass.

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  • This sometimes requires such close examination that a magnifying loop will be needed to distinguish, say, quackgrass from goosegrass.

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