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yellow rattle

British  

noun

  1. See rattle 1

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It was particularly important to get some yellow rattle seed, which helps keep more dominant grasses in check.

From BBC

In time, up came indigenous plants like knapweed and yellow rattle and more exotic blooms like Camassia, byzantine gladiolus.

From New York Times

He, along with his mother, until her death in 1972, also tended to the property’s various swaths of dedicated meadowland, from which, come the warmer months, wildflowers, including orchids, yellow rattle and buttercups, emerge at random.

From New York Times

The yellow rattle seed I planted has strangled the grasses that would otherwise prevent wildflowers coming through.

From The Guardian

To help things along, Panting added native yellow rattle, which is partially parasitic to grass, to the mix of daisies, poppies and cornflowers.

From New York Times