Sawgrass

I thank you and others for opening my eyes to the fact that "sawgrass" isn't going to help my enlarged prostate! ❋ Unknown (2009)

We follow fresh tracks out to the edge of a marsh on the Gulf of Mexico and see a bulldozed section of sawgrass but then it goes back into the swamp. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A grave lined with upright shovels, their blades buried into the sawgrass . . . ❋ Adrian Phoenix (2011)

Each visit, I make at least one visit to this vast expanse of Everglades habitat, consisting of sloughs, wet prairies, sawgrass, cypress swamp, and tree islands -- remarkably, just about 15 minutes drive from grandmother's house in Boynton Beach. ❋ Karen Rubin (2011)

Herbs I have never encountered before, like sawgrass, are piled high onto a plate in the middle of our table and we are encouraged to fill our bowls as the owner explains that it is the mixture of beef bones, aloe vera and ginger that gives pho its distinct taste. ❋ Jemima Sissons (2011)

Our guide points out huge knobs of turmeric and ginger as we pick up herbs—edible chrysanthemum, sawgrass, spearmint—and good-natured market sellers look on as we sample everything in sight. ❋ Jemima Sissons (2011)

He hit another shot smack into the middle of a sawgrass plant, the ball only seen by standing over it and suspended a few inches off the ground. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I was struck most by the riparian resilience of the land, the sawgrass that extended as far as the eye could see, the hummocks of gum and persimmon and hackberry and oak trees, the seagulls and brown pelicans that sailed over the mouth of a freshwater river flowing into the Gulf. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Then I went back inside and bought a fried pie and a cup of Community coffee and ate the pie and drank the coffee while I looked out the window at a shrimp boat moving down a canal through the sawgrass, seagulls whirling and dipping over its wake. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Outside Franklin, he drove south on the two-lane through a corridor of gum and hackberry trees and slash pines that grew along the edge of flooded sawgrass and expanses of saltwater intrusion where the grass had turned the color of urine. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

The Abelard estate was down at the bottom of St. Mary Parish, where the land bleeds gradually into sawgrass and ill-defined marshy terrain that is being eaten away by saltwater intrusion as far as the eye can see. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

This National Park was once a mosaic of ponds, sawgrass and marshes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After lobbyists pay their nighttime visits, the drilling will start, and some dark, lonely night, through human error or computer breakdown or metal fatigue, the black gunk will belch into the marshy hammocks and over the sawgrass and through the canals. ❋ Unknown (2010)