Poverty grass is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
Any of several grasses that grow in poor or sandy soil, for example:
Aristida dichotoma, Shinner's three-awn
Eremochloa bimaculata
Sporobolus vaginiflorus, sheathed dropseed
Danthonia spicata, poverty oatgrass
Any of several plants in the genus Hudsonia that grow up on beaches
During the Dust Bowl period of The Great Depression, struggling farmers in Oklahoma referred to certain fluffy-headed grasses as "poverty grass". Those grasses had very little nutrition value to offer their stock, but would keep them from their noisy complaining if allowed to graze on them when there were no nutritious grasses to eat.[citation needed]
Index of plants with the same common name
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Povertygrass is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Any of several grasses that grow in poor or sandy soil, for example: Aristida dichotoma...
Danthonia spicata is a species of grass known by the common name poverty oatgrass, or simply povertygrass. It is native to North America, where it is...
about the United States Department of Agriculture's attempt to use povertygrasses to stabilize the Oregon Dunes in Florence, Oregon. Herbert learned...
Hudsonia (goldenheather, povertygrass) is a small genus of three species of flowering plants in the family Cistaceae, native to North America. They are...
Sporobolus vaginiflorus is a species of grass known by the common names povertygrass, poverty dropseed, and sheathed dropseed. This bunchgrass is native...
central United States Danthonia spicata (L.) Roem. & Schult. – poverty oatgrass, povertygrass – from Alaska + Greenland to Veracruz Danthonia unispicata...
churchmouse threeawn, fork-tip three-awn, pigbutt three-awn, and povertygrass, is a species of grass from eastern North America. It is native to the Eastern and...
In 1886, her collected stories were published in a volume entitled PovertyGrass. In 1913, she published American Chivalry, a collection of essays about...
The Grass Is Singing, published in 1950, is the first novel by the British author Doris Lessing. It takes place in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in...
large genus of grasses, classified in its own tribe Bromeae. They are commonly known as bromes, brome grasses, cheat grasses or chess grasses. Estimates in...
Sorghum while sharing many morphological characteristics with other fragrant grasses, such as lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), citronella (Cymbopogon nardus...
Pine Barrens. Other plants in the area include povertygrass (Aristida longispica), warty panic-grass (Panicum verrucosum), and spatulate-leaved sundew...
species of bromegrass known as barren brome, poverty brome, and sterile brome. This is an annual or biennial grass ranging from about 20 to 90 centimeters...
poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty...
The larvae feed on nodding fescue (Festuca obtusa), povertygrass (Danthonia spicata), and panic grass (Panicum), Bouteloua, Andropogon, Aristida, and Poaceae...
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and grass-root groups as well as European organisations, active in the fight against poverty and social exclusion. It was established...