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Piptochaetium avenaceum (Blackseed Speargrass)
Type: Species | Edit History Plant ID - 504408 |
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If attached to your clothing, the awn will dry out and curl and push the sharp tip of the seed through your clothes and into your skin. That's why you don't want to raise sheep where this grass grows. It will drive itself into their skin and get infected.
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Stipa avenacea
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