speargrass

'Till, presently, tired and a little out of sorts, I sat down on a hummock of speargrass and sand for a little before going home.

Movie Night 2010

They include blue grama and buffalo grass, cacti, sagebrush, speargrass, and small relatives of the sunflower.

Grassland biome 2008

On the grassy plains yellow speargrass Imperata cylindrica, Commiphora sp.,

Lake Turkana National Parks, Kenya 2008

Mangere Island now supports a remnant patch of akeake forest and healthy tundra communities of shrub daisies, iceplant (Disphyma spp.), koromiko, and megaherbs such as giant sowthistle and soft speargrass.

Chatham Island temperate forests 2008

Cushion plants such as Chionohebe myosotioide, tall tussocks (Chionochloa spp.), and large herbs like the speargrass (Aciphylla subflabellata) are found at high altitude above the natural treeline.

Cantebury-Otago tussock grasslands 2007

Yields of Panicum maximum and speargrass under a canopy of A. lebbeck in a subhumid area of northern Australia were significantly higher than yields between the trees, 1710 vs. 753 kg/ha, for trees sufficiently isolated for considerable lateral light penetration (Lowry et al. 1988).

Chapter 10 1996

Yields of Panicum maximum and speargrass under a canopy of A. lebbeck in a subhumid area of northern Australia were significantly higher than yields between the trees, 1710 vs. 753 kg/ha, for trees sufficiently isolated for considerable lateral light penetration (Lowry et al. 1988).

Chapter 8 1996

Some perennial tropical grasses such as Guinea (Panicum maximum) and speargrass

Chapter 10 1981

I remember that there were kittiwakes crying and wheeling above us, and coloured butterflies flitting in and out of the speargrass of the sandhills, and a hot sun that made the water blue and sparkling, the sand white.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

What memories of the soft summer mornings; the fresh and fragrant air; the diffused and misty sunshine; the sparkle of the dew on the tall wisps of speargrass; the beaded and shining cobwebs; the scamper, barefooted, across the glittering green!

Mushrooms on the Moor Frank Boreham 1915