button grass

English
Landscape with button grass in the foreground

Alternative forms

Noun

button grass (uncountable)

  1. Gymnoschoenus sphaerocephalus, a tussock-forming sedge from southeastern Australia.
    • 1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 75, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping‎, New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, pages 377-378:
      […] the ceiling swelled in waves like an ocean, like a buttongrass plain, like the pocked earth stripped of its trees […]
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