quack grass

And look at them gardens where nobody ever finds any weeds or quack grass anymore.

Stealthy quack grass moved in, spreading its intrepid rhizomes to every corner of the bed.

Two successive crops are enough to reclaim land that has been abandoned because of Canadian thistles or quack grass.

Purslane, quack grass and other weeds proliferate beyond his control and seize more territory with each passing year.

A word of warning: If you do have a mat of perennial weeds (made up of quack grass, for instance) it will resist breaking down.

Ms. Stein spends her Sundays down on her knees in the dirt, tracing the fleshy white rhizomes of quack grass to their individual ends underground.

Quack grass roots can travel laterally as much as 50 feet, moving an inch or two beneath the surface and pushing up a blade (or 10) wherever the opportunity arises.

When he picked'it up from under a clump of quack grass along the backstop, he glanced over at the bench, noting the displea- sure of the school's headmaster, "Mr. Roberts," who was making notes on a clipboard.

Panicum repens is a species of grass known by many common names, including torpedograss, creeping panic, panic rampant, couch panicum, wainaku grass, quack grass, dog-tooth grass, and bullet grass.

The flatter terrain that was originally used as farmland was allowed to become overgrown with native plants like goldenrod and black-eyed Susan, but invasive plants like knapweed, quack grass, timothy-grass, and white sweet clover have also taken hold.

Among the pearls of ecological evidence that have so far emerged from the Tilman experiments are these: *As nitrogen rises, the number of plant species declines; the thick green grass, a species called quack grass, which happens to proliferate wildly in high-nitrogen soil, has crowded out other species in its plot.