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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

... over the surface of the yellow buttercups, and away above the hedge. Hart's-tongue fern, thick with green, so green as to be thick with its colour, deep in the ditch under the shady hazel boughs. White meadow-sweet lifting its tiny florets, and black-flowered sedges. You must push through the reed grass to find the sword-flags; the stout willow-herbs will not be trampled down, but resist the foot like underwood. Pink lychnis flowers behind the withy stoles, and little black moorhens swim away, as you gather it, after their mother, who has dived under the water-grass, and broken ...

— The Life of the Fields • Richard Jefferies

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