Definition of Broom beard grass

1. Noun. Handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Broom Beard Grass

brookites
brooklet
brooklets
brooklike
brooklime
brooklimes
brookside
brooksides
brookweed
brookweeds
brool
brools
broom
broom-like
broom-weed
broom closet
broom corn
broom handle
broom palm
broom rape
broom sedge
broom snakeroot
broom snakeweed
broom tree
broom wagon
broomball
broomballer
broomballers

Literary usage of Broom beard grass

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of the Wild and Cultivated Flowering Plants by Chester Arthur Darling (1912)
"b Spikes 1-2 in. long, terminal or lateral broom beard grass. (A. scoparius.) c Spikes 2-5 in. long, terminal and lateral 20 ARISTIDA. FORKED BEARD GRASS. ..."

2. Hayfever and Asthma: Care, Prevention and Treatment by William Scheppegrell (1922)
"... the most common being as follows: bull grass ( Tripsacum dactyloides), broom beard-grass (Schizachyrium scoparium), forked beard- grass (Andropogon ..."

3. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1905)
"The nest is excavated in the pure sand, nearly always about the roots of the broom beard-grass (Andropogon scoparius) (Plates XII and XIII) or of the ..."

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