piper-grass

Updated: May 13, 2025

That's Roman wormwood that's pigweed that's sorrel that's piper-grass have at him, chop him up, turn his roots upward to the sun, don't let him have a fibre in the shade, if you do he'll turn himself t' other side up and be as green as a leek in two days. A long war, not with cranes, but with weeds, those Trojans who had sun and rain and dews on their side.

Henry David Thoreau - Walden