pampas
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Horticultural invasives, such as butterfly bush, English ivy, pampas grass and many other garden favorites that have escaped cultivation, are of increasing concern.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2024
On the pampas they may have been equally valued for their relatively fatty meat.
From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023
Years ago, when he read Bruce Chatwin’s “In Patagonia,” he retraced the writer’s 168-mile trek across the pampas of South America to the Cave of the Giant Sloth.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023
Outside the city, on the broad and dusty plain of the pampas, is the landscape that provides the country its power.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022
Beside this tiny stream, wherever enough earth collected for root-hold, colonies of plants grew, wild grape and little palms, maidenhair fern, hibiscus, and tall pampas grass with feathery rods raised above the spike leaves.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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South America - Middle School
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South America - High School
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