grasslike

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Each bulb produces one or more flowering stems above grasslike foliage.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Ethnobotanists in western Amazonia have often encountered piri-piri, a strange-looking sedge — a flowering, grasslike plant — reputed to feature many medicinal qualities.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

It is about 24 inches high, grasslike, extremely fine-textured and about to smother itself in yellow blooms against red stems.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2017

Maybe it’s in tiny little packets here and there, hidden in the dying grasslike winter wildflowers, but we find it where we can, and exactly as it comes to us, while the days grow dark.

From Salon • Dec. 12, 2012

Naturally the plants form thick tufts of abundant, hollow, grasslike leaves from their little oval bulbs and mat of fibrous roots.

From Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by Kains, M. G. (Maurice Grenville)