It is also known as Slender Meadow Foxtail, Black-Grass, Twitch Grass, Black Twitch.

Black-grass (Alopecurus myosuroides)

It is also known as Slender Meadow Foxtail, Black-Grass, Twitch Grass, Black Twitch.

Where our village had had a solidpacked floor of dirt from the extensive comings and goings of commerce, this village had a gentle carpet of black-grass, cut through only here and there by dirt paths.

Nick could see twitching grass, the beasts were on the move.

Inside Oakharn, the road surface improved noticeably, thistles and twitch grass still burrowed up through the tarmac near the kerbs, but the streets were open to two-way traffic.

It is also known as Slender Meadow Foxtail, Black-Grass, Twitch Grass, Black Twitch.

It is also known as Slender Meadow Foxtail, Black-Grass, Twitch Grass, Black Twitch.

Alopecurus myosuroides is an annual grass, found on cultivated and waste land.

Alopecurus myosuroides (I)

Alopecurus pratensis has two common relatives Marsh Foxtail Alopecurus geniculatus and Black Grass Alopecurus myosuroides.

Its distribution is dictated by the range of Alopecurus myosuroides which, in Britain, is common only in the south-east Midlands and East Anglia, and locally as far west as Dorset.