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tarweed
[ tahr-weed ]
noun
- any of several resinous or gummy, composite plants of the genus Grindelia, having solitary flower heads.
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The brushed marks went not only through the carpet of pine needles, but through the tarweed, the snow brush, the manzañita.
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The fire had leaped the cleared path and was greedily eating in all directions through the short, pitchy growth of tarweed.
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The tarweed, especially, was stubborn under even the most vigorous wielding of his sharpened hoe.
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He raked carefully his broad path among the pine needles, laying bare the brown earth; hoed and chopped in the tarweed and brush.
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Tall, stately teasels stand like sentinels along the way, and the balsamic tarweed spreads its fragrance along the outer edge.
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