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Twenty-five percent of mesquite trees were killed on an area with Lehman lovegrass ground cover compared to 8% on an area with black grama. Ninety percent of black grama plants and more than 98% of lovegrass plants were killed. Many new lovegrass seedlings became established on both areas.
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Dwight R. Cable (1965) studied this question.
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