Hairs a tangle of stiff black stalks, the pores small damp craters.

The reeds were dessicate stalks, stiff and brown.

Of course, the obvious items for cleanup are those stiff dead stalks left over from the summer-fall blooms.

These tools include "knives" cut from stiff leaves and stiff stalks of grass.

But it was settled deeper down among the stiff brown stalks than something made of leather or fabric or rubber could have fallen.

The flowers occur in prominent inflorescences on stiff erect stalks and are deep red or orange-red in colour.

Florets may be on stiff, or slender, nodding stalks.

At least, he thought it was cornlong, stiff stalks, head- high.

As though midway up that stiff stalk, it was becoming even more engorged.