Agropyron repens.

Botanical name: 

Agropyron repens Beauv. Gramineae. Quack Grass.

Temperate regions. This is a troublesome weed in many situations yet Withering states that bread has been made from its roots in times of want.


Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World, 1919, was edited by U. P. Hedrick.