wood-rushn.
/ˈwʊdrʌʃ/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌrəʃ/ Any plant of the genus Luzula, comprising grass-like herbs allied to the rushes, with clusters of chaffy brown flowers. The name belongs properly to the sylvan species, as L. sylvatica (Great Wood-rush, also called wood-grass); the common species L. campestris (Field Wood-rush) is better called field-rush.
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sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. I. 213 Small hairy Wood-rush.
1857 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 299 L[uzula] sylvatica (Great Hairy Wood Rush).
1861 S. Thomson Wanderings among Wild Flowers (rev. ed.) iii. 170 The broad-leaved wood-rush, with its hairy leaves, may..be gathered in woods.
1889 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 25 188 Luzula albida..is a very graceful woodrush of a peculiar shade of light green.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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