Barnyard grass
a weedy, coarse grass, Echinochloa crus-galli, having a spikelike cluster of flowers.
Historical Examples
barnyard grass (Panicum crusgalli) behaved like pigweed, and ‘needed considerable attention.’
Appletons’ Popular Science Monthly, May 1899 Various
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