denuded

Surrounding hillsides, significantly denuded of plant life, are dotted with scores of freshly cut stumps.

Moments later, it emerged as a landscape denuded of all color save brown and gray and the occasional red-rimmed maw of a destroyed brick rooftop.

The stream banks were denuded of vegetation and the riffle crests obliterated as the choked stream tried to reach the sea.

Later, she drives through a part of the forest that burned the year before to see “mile upon mile of carbonized trees and denuded earth, a now-familiar scene of extinguished life.”

The plant can grow rapidly in the denuded landscape, sometimes shooting up to its maximum height of nearly 10 feet within a year.