foxtail grass

(noun) ground pine thickly covered with bristly leaves; widely distributed in barren sandy or peaty moist coastal regions of eastern and southeastern United States. Synonyms: foxtail grass, Lycopodium alopecuroides.

(noun) grasses of the genera Alopecurus and Setaria having dense silky or bristly brushlike flowering spikes. Synonyms: foxtail, foxtail grass.