Any of several plants in the genus Hudsonia that grow up on
beaches
During the
Dust Bowl period of The Great Depression, struggling farmers in Oklahoma referred to certain fluffy-headed grasses as "poverty grass". Those grasses had very little nutrition value to offer their stock, but would keep them from their noisy complaining if allowed to graze on them when there were no nutritious grasses to eat.[citation needed]
Index of plants with the same common name
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Any of several plants in the genus Hudsonia that grow up on
beaches
During the
Dust Bowl period of The Great Depression, struggling farmers in Oklahoma referred to certain fluffy-headed grasses as "poverty grass". Those grasses had very little nutrition value to offer their stock, but would keep them from their noisy complaining if allowed to graze on them when there were no nutritious grasses to eat.[citation needed]
Index of plants with the same common name
This page is an index of articles on plant species (or higher taxonomic groups) with the same
common name (
vernacular name). If an
internal link led you here, you may wish to edit the linking article so that it links directly to the intended article.