DCHP-3

spear grass

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several species of tough, irritating grass, such as Poa pratensis or Stipa columbiana.

Quotations

1881
Spear grass, which is something like wild oats, works right through boots, stockings, trousers, and everything.
1952
The most typical montane landscape . . . is a scattered parklike stand of ponderosa pine amidst a steppe vegetation of bunch grass . . . spear grass. . . .
1953
The sheep crop the "prairie wool"--that excellent hard forage composed of spear-grass, bunch-grass and buffalo-grass.