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Reed grass

noun

Any of various tall perennial grasses of the genus Calamagrostis having feathery plumes; natives of marshland fens and wet woodlands of temperate northern hemisphere.

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"Reed grass" Quotes from Famous Books

... not so good as that at Najack. There is towards the sea a large piece of low flat land which is overflowed at every tide, like the schorr with us, miry and muddy at the bottom, and which produces a species of hard salt grass or reed grass. Such a place they call valey and mow it for hay, which cattle would rather eat than fresh hay or grass. It is so hard that they cannot mow it with a common scythe, like ours, but must have the English scythe for the purpose. Their adjoining corn lands are dry and barren for the most part. Some ...

— Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 • Jasper Danckaerts

... the open woodlands where the fine white flowers of the Canada anemone blow, and slough grass in the marshy meadows where the white-crossed flowers of the sharp spring are fading, and the woolly stem of the bitter boneset is lengthening; reed grass and floating manna grass in the swamps where the broad arrow leaves of the sagittaria fringe the shore and the floating leaves and fragrant blossoms of the water lilies adorn the pond. The three days' rain beginning ...

— Some Spring Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell

Words linked to "Reed grass" : Calamagrostis acutiflora, grass, genus Calamagrostis, Australian reed grass, feather reed grass, Calamagrostis, Calamagrostic quadriseta, feathertop