barley-grass

“Mason had come armed with a handful of wild barley-grass, or "crawly", as it was better known among the boys.”

Jack of Both Sides The Story of a School War

“Nor is the envy that you inspire shared only by insects and mankind: even things without soul change their form into yours; -- witness the barley-grass, which turns into a butterfly.”

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

“a very rich thinly wooded country with herbage like that on old folding ground in spring, we reached unwooded plains; at 9.20 came south-south-east one and a quarter miles across a plain chiefly covered with barley-grass; at 11.20 came south-east by south across plains for five and a quarter miles to the edge of wooded country, and halted till”

Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills