Grass (disambiguation)

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Grass may refer to:

Plants

• Cannabis (drug), a psychoactive drug also called grass
• Grass, a common name for plants with narrow blade-shaped leaves, including:
  • Any of a number of plants in family Poaceae with narrow blade-shaped leaves
  • Many plants not in family Poaceae, including:
    • Blue-eyed grasses, Sisyrinchium
    • China grass, Boehmeria nivea, a nettle grown for fibre, in family Urticaceae
    • Cotton grass, Eriophorum spp., in family Cyperaceae.
    • Deergrass (disambiguation):
      • Rhexia spp., in family Melastomataceae
      • Trichophorum spp., in family Cyperaceae, particularly T. cespitosum
    • Ditch grass, Ruppia maritima, in family Ruppiaceae
    • Eelgrass:
      • Zostera
      • Vallisneria
    • Golden-eye grass, Curculigo orchioides, in family Hypoxidaceae
    • Good Friday Grass, Luzula campestris, in family Juncaceae.
    • Goosegrass, Galium aparine
    • Grass of Parnassus, Parnassia, in family Celastraceae
    • Knotgrass, Polygonum spp., in family Polygonaceae
    • Mondo grass, Ophiopogon japonicus, in family Asparagaceae
    • Nutgrass, Cyperus rotundus, in family Cyperaceae
    • Pepper grass, Lepidium spp., in family Brassicaceae
    • Sawgrass, Cladium spp., in family Cyperaceae
    • Scurvy-grass:
      • Cochlearia spp., in family Brassicaceae
      • Oxalis enneaphylla in family Oxalidaceae
    • Seagrasses in four families
    • Sleeping grass, Mimosa pudica, in family Fabaceae
    • Whitlow grass, Draba and Erophila spp., in family Brassicaceae:
    • Xyridaceae, known as the yellow-eyed grass family

People with the surname

• Alex Grass (1927–2009), American businessman and lawyer
• Arthur Grass (1897–1994), English-born Brazilian cricketer
• Frank J. Grass (born 1951), American general
• Günter Grass (1927–2015), German author and playwright
• John Grass (1837–1918), Native American Lakota leader
• Philippe Grass (1801–1876), French sculptor
• Vincent Grass (born 1949), Belgian actor

Places

• Grass Valley, California
• Grass Mountain (Vermont)
• Grass Range, Montana

Entertainment

• Grass (1925 film), a documentary about the Bakhtiari tribe of Iran
• Grass (1999 film), a documentary about marijuana
• Grass (album), a 2005 album by Keller Williams
• "Grass" (song), a single by the band Animal Collective
• Grass (TV series), a BBC television series
• "Grass", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel
• Grass (novel), a novel in The Arbai Trilogy by Sheri Tepper
• Grass, a 1968 independent film by Clarke Mackey

Other uses

• Grass (card game), a cannabis-themed card game similar to Mille Bornes
• GRASS (programming language), a programming language used to script 2D vector graphics animations
• GRASS GIS, an open source geographic information system
• Supergrass (informer), a criminal informer
• Gras and Grasse, communes in France
• Grass dance, a Native American style of pow wow dancing