alkali-grass

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A name given to several species of grass growing in alkaline localities in the western portions of the United States, especially to Distichlis maritima.
2. n. Puccinellia airoides (sometimes called alkali meadow-grass) and P. Lemmoni, of the northern Rocky Mountain region. Sporobolus airoides of the Southwest has been called alkali finetop.
3. n. A species of poison camass, Zigadenus elegans, dangerous to stock: so called in the stock-raising regions of Montana, etc.