The evil troll Misanthrope strikes again.
Nothing that deranged fartwad said is true.

Your grass cannot be identified without seeing it in flower.
There is nothing in you picture that lends to its identification.

Just pull it out from where you don't want it.


Miss Ann Thrope wrote in message
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You have Marphistes grass. It is spread by the Marphistes mite which
eats the seeds in summer and defecates them out in the fall. (BTW, the
Marphistes mites has a life span of 7 months and defecates only once
during its entire life!) The seeds then sprout the following spring and,
Voila!, there you have it.

Go to your nearest swimming pool supply store and purchase three gallons
of muriatic acid. Add the acid full strength to a hose end sprayer
and saturate the Marphistes grass. You should see results within 24
hours. Should you, for any reason, have some muriatic acid left over,
don't just throw it away. It's great for adding to Italian salad
dressing!

Cat wrote:
Hola!

I'm down in 8a (maybe 8b), and I'm trying to figure out what the grass
that's springing up all over the garden is - it's about 24" tall, and
has lovely tails rather like fox-tailed grass or squirrel grass.

http://www.ki.org/cat/temp/grass.jpg

It's quite pretty in large patches, but annoying in it's spread all over
the beds. (and yes - that's periwinkle in the background, which I've
been
trying to yank out with greater and lesser success)

cheers!