carpet grass

noun

either of two grasses, Axonopus affinis or A. compressus, native to tropical and subtropical America.

An Americanism dating back to 1900–05

How can Bermuda or carpet grass pasture best be established?

To a large extent this can be obviated by plowing the pastures whenever the carpet grass seems to be obtaining the upper hand.

If this be true, it would not be economy to go to any particular trouble to retain the Bermuda instead of the carpet grass.

About every Florida settlement where the town cattle graze, there is good pasture, commonly carpet grass.

It may, indeed, be found more economical not to try to save the Bermuda after the carpet grass crowds it.

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