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Definition of Old witch grass
1. Noun. North American grass with slender brushy panicles; often a weed on cultivated land.
Generic synonyms: Panic Grass
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Witch Grass
Literary usage of Old witch grass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Nova Scotia to North Dakota, south to Florida and In dry soil, common as a weed
in cultivated fields, Texas, Also in Bermuda. Old-witch-grass. ..."
2. Agriculture in Some of Its Relations with Chemistry by Frank Humphreys Storer (1897)
"They are the false millets, called bottle-grass or panic-grass (Setaria),
barnyard-grass (Panicum Crus-galli), old-witch-grass (P. Capillare), ..."
3. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"old witch grass (Pan- icum capillare). X J. Culms stout, erect, or with decumbent
base, branched and spreading, one to two feet in ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"old witch grass. A common native annual grass and weed, recommended for cultivation
on account of its ornamental purple panicle, which is ample and loose, ..."
5. Seed-travellers: Studies of the Methods of Dispersal of Various Common Seeds by Clarence Moores Weed (1899)
"The old-witch grass has thus adopted a most efficient method of seed distribution.
Out of the hundreds of seeds sown broadcast by every whirling panicle, ..."
6. Report (1913)
"Panicum capillare L. Old-witch Grass. Noticed about the village and on cultivated
grounds. Echinochloa crusgalli (L.) Beam*. Barnyard Grass. ..."
7. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"OLD WITCH-GRASS. A common native annual grass and weed, has been recommended for
cult, on account of its ornamental purple panicle, which is ample and ..."
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