In March 2010 the playing field was resurfaced with couch grass for public use.

A rumour of gold would spread like couch grass.

The little humans burst past, and fled into the shelter of tall couch grass.

You haven't mentioned the impervious horror of couch grass.

Not under-estimating the challenge, but even couch grass has its place, as food plant for a gorgeous butterfly.

Couch grass has become naturalised throughout much of the world, and is often listed as an invasive weed.

Hogun plucked a stem of couch grass and placed it between his teeth.

Severe cold had killed off most of the population and those who survived ended up with this spreading cancer that grew like couch grass in May.

Clear the ground of all perennial weeds (particularly couch grass, ground elder and bindweed) before you plant.

They also have a tendency to chop up the roots of couch grass and docks, causing the spread of these weeds.

Other herbs, such as cornsilk and couch grass, can soothe the walls of the urinary tract.

We faced each other across 12 ludicrous inches of disputed Dorset couch grass breathing stertorously.

The pitch was made of a matted couch grass and was very spongy and soft.

The caterpillar is green with a short, forked tail and feeds on various species of grass, especially couch grass.

Pastureland have a cover of feather grass, couch grass, wormwood, and several species fodder plants.

Couch grass grew enthusiastically over what had once been an asparagus bed, as evidenced by a few waving tufts of asparagus foliage.

Couch grass is certainly in the list of pernicious perennials but like the others mentioned perseverance is the key, in my opinion anyway.

The drier areas contain maritime grasses such as sea couch grass and sea poa grass.

There is also evidence that the roots of some perennials such as couch grass exude allelopathic chemicals which inhibit the growth of other nearby plants.

For 360 g formulations, European regulations allow applications of up to 12 litres per hectare for control of perennial weeds such as couch grass.

Salt Couch Grass - (Sporobolus virginicus)

Cynodon dactylon (couch grass, kweekgras, kweek)

Agropyron pungens, sea couch grass is a species of grass of the genus Agropyron in the Poaceae family.

The gout fly damages 18 species of cultivated and wild cereal plants, wheat, barley, rye, oats, timothy grass and couch grass.

Razor Cuts has couch grass, corn silk, buchu, juniper berries and parsley, in addition to 60 milligrams of vitamin B6 (30 times the recommended dietary allowance).

The Meadow is dominated by species such as Meadowsweet and Common Couch.

This space formed the common couch and lounging-place of the natives, answering the purpose of a divan in Oriental countries.

Common Couch (Elymus repens) is also used.

Common couch (Elymus repens)

They all three went in together; only Twitch came out.

A muscle on the left side of his face twitches.

The body was free of twitches now; the face a blank.

There've been a few twitches and they could be restless.

It was interesting that the twitches only occurred toward the beginning of each line.

In the face of random twitches, no one can have a strategy.

That would help rid him of the twitches in his stomach.

The body went into the final twitches of the death agonies.

He certainly shouldn't get twitches in his extremities for that!

His body hit the ground a yard from Gentle, with only a few twitches of life left in it.

Can't the twitches keep their minds made up two days together?"

The scars are not the worst part, nor even the way his mouth twitches.

Seven men and women talk about living with the twitches of Tourette's.

The boy called Twitch bled on this street of trouble, and died.

Brutal's mouth twitches, but he manages to keep a straight face.

They gave a couple of convulsive twitches and lay still.

In the end there came a series of twitches at the hook-rope.

Not, believe me, that I have anything against twitches and moans, but to every thing its season.

She stops and walks off just as Victor's hand twitches.

The movement was not so different, with its unexpected fits, starts and twitches.

His muscles were giving little twitches, as if he had just finished a marathon run.

The woman's body twitches, but she does not speak.

No wonder the pain nets wake the patients up and even make dead people do twitches!

Were they starting to feel twitches that eventually would draw them back to the nest?

Other names include twitch, quick grass, quitch grass (also just quitch), dog grass, quackgrass, scutch grass, and witchgrass.

After the Rains, when the quick grass sprang up, vast herds of deer and pronghorn come down from the mountains; and when there were no rains the people ate lizards and roots.