quitch

quitch (KWICH) - n., a common perennial grass (Elymus repens) that is native to Eurasia and an invasive species throughout the rest of the world.


Also called twitch, couch grass, quick-grass, dog-grass, quackgrass, scutch grass, and witchgrass. Often considered a weed outside of its native lands. In Middle English it was called quicche and in Old English, cwice -- ultimately going back to the same PIE root as quick in the of living/vigorous.


Thanks, WikiMedia!

---L.