muskeg grass

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a kind of swamp grass.

Quotations

1896

. . . the foregoer of the [buffalo] herd must have been a veritable Moses leading his followers to a promised land of--I suppose--muskeg grass.

1910

. . . the carpeted muskeg itself would feed the conflagration . . . the wild grass, the muskeg hay, the short wolf willow . . . all were fuel.