NOUN
- North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land
- European grass spreading rapidly by creeping rhizomes; naturalized in North America as a weed
How To Use witch grass In A Sentence
- When a visitor stands in the center of the trail and scans eastward across the tops of a myriad of purple meadow rue, old witch grass, big blue stem, and wild raspberries and plum, ‘natural history’ becomes visually literal.
- Possible low-cost feedstocks include municipal solid waste, switch grass and even fast-growing hardwoods.
- Stover is a kind of potential feedstock of Biofuels, such as corn stover, barley straw, wheat straw, switch grass and rice straw.
- If the above grass species identifications are correct, perhaps there are additional characteristics of big bluestem and switch grass that merit further attention.
- It also has common names such as couch grass, quitch grass, scutch grass, or scutch and twitch, or twitch grass. Globe and Mail
- Witch grass is an annual grass native to North America that infests field crops, small grains, grasslands, and a variety of other habitats.
- Species identification of archaeological specimens is not secure, but big bluestem and switch grass would have been common constituents of mesic bottomland prairies of the American Bottom.
- Switch grass which is an energy topic I knew nothing about until about a year and a half ago when I started hearing speakers talk about diluted crispness of turning to quern based ethanol which is really energy intensity and ignoring things like switch grass. CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2006
- I've done two years of lasagne composting, followed by two layers of weed cloth, and then about six inches of wood chips - the witch grass keeps coming through with a vengeance.
