grasslike

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Each bulb produces one or more flowering stems above grasslike foliage.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Ethnobotanists in western Amazonia have often encountered piri-piri, a strange-looking sedge — a flowering, grasslike plant — reputed to feature many medicinal qualities.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

It is about 24 inches high, grasslike, extremely fine-textured and about to smother itself in yellow blooms against red stems.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2017

Maybe it’s in tiny little packets here and there, hidden in the dying grasslike winter wildflowers, but we find it where we can, and exactly as it comes to us, while the days grow dark.

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2012

Leaves: Exceedingly variable; those under water usually long and grasslike; upper ones sharply arrow-shaped or blunt and broad, spongy or leathery, on long petioles.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje