foxtail

The larv feed on the roots of grasses, having particular liking for the roots of foxtail, timothy and blue-grass.

But if the girls or women dozed, he gently tickled their cheeks with the foxtail hanging at the other end of the same stick.

Foxtail (Setaria glauca), false redtop (Triodia flava), and panic grass (Panicum clandestinum) also occur commonly.

"Here's my enemy, I meet it on every hand," said Gill, twisting up a tuft of foxtail grass.