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S8

A common kind of wild grass that grows in fields: it spreads by sending out long underground roots, and it’s hard to get rid of:

QUACK GRASS 10
CRAB GRASS 3
“ANY TYPE OF MINT, CRAB” 1
MITHCANSUS/PAMPAS GRASS 1
QUICK GRASS 1
SWITCH GRASS 1

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