quackgrass

IPA: kwˈækgræs

quack grass

IPA: kwˈækgrˈæs

Alternative form of quackgrass [couch grass (a species of grass, Elymus repens)]

The quackgrass has grown tall and mourning doves frequently visit him.
Quackgrass may be the most important reservoir for overwintering telia.
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Underground are long white branching rhizomes that vaguely resemble quackgrass.
After a season of neglect, even these tough flowers were losing ground to the bindweed and quackgrass and spurge.
Don't add weeds that have gone to seed or aggressive perennial weeds like creeping Charley, bindweed, or quackgrass.
"Remove persistent weeds such as blackberry, bindweed, morning glory or quackgrass that composting might not smother."
This sometimes requires such close examination that a magnifying loop will be needed to distinguish, say, quackgrass from goosegrass.
Other plants also are "totally tied up with our culture," he says, even reviled weeds like dandelions, once considered a decorative herb, and noxious grasses such as crabgrass and quackgrass, used to fuel the engines of commerce - horses and mules.

Of all of these years of hard plowing in quack-grass, while batting
Weeds that propagate through underground stems or rhizomes like quack-grass, Johnsongrass, bittersweet, and the like are better burnt.
While the operator is busy adjusting his machine and manipulating it about the corners of the garden, the quack-grass has escaped over the fence or has gone to seed at the other end of the plantation.
No sooner is one growth slain than a different and perhaps more pestiferous class rises in its place -- the worst of the Philistines being nut-grass, quack-grass, and -- direst foe of all -- wire-grass.
Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.
Only two clergymen accepted my offer to come and help hoe my potatoes for the privilege of using my vegetable total-depravity figure about the snake-grass, or quack-grass, as some call it; and those two did not bring hoes.