WIRE GRASS

[wire grass] n (1751): any of various grasses or rushes having wiry culms or leaves: as a: a European slender-stemmed meadow grass (Poa compressa) widely naturalized in the U.S. and Canada b: any of several coarse grasses (genus Aristida) with a 3-awned lemma that grow extensively in open dry, sandy, or sterile areas esp. of the southeastern and south-central U.S.