dog's-tail

These pseudo-Titians were for Monsieur About his Alcibiades's dog's-tail.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

I stare down at the soil, at the clumps of crested dog's-tail and stray blades of succulent darnel; I force my attention on

Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter Elliott O'Donnell 1918

Then under foot there were patches of woolly feather-grass and fragrant meadow-sweet, sheets of fescue, dog's-tail, creeping-bent, and meadow grass.

La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

I do not suppose you will have any occasion to renovate the turf in any part of your park; but, if you should, the best way is to get a mixture of the seeds of several sorts of grasses, such as the fox-tail meadow grass (Alopecùrus praténsis), the sweet-scented vernal grass (Anthoxánthum odoràtum), the crested dog's-tail grass (Cynosùrus cristàtus), and other valuable kinds.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845