wire grass

Noun

• coarse annual grass having fingerlike spikes of flowers; native to Old World tropics; a naturalized weed elsewhere

• handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  yardgrass , yard grass , goose grass , Eleusine indica , broom beard grass , prairie grass , Andropogon scoparius , Schizachyrium scoparium