Crossword-Solution: RAGWEED 7 letters, 38 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The undergrowth is simply hideous, consisting mainly of coarse reedy grass, monstrous docks, the large-leaved _Polygonum cuspidatum_, several umbelliferous plants, and a “ragweed” which, like most of its gawky fellows, grows from five to six feet high.

This culminated one afternoon, after a long exchange of mediaeval defiance and insult, in a battle upon a bed of ragweed, with wild shrieks of rage, and prodigious feats of ground and lofty tumbling.

The farmers cutting corn, still green, for stock, and ploughing ragweed strongholds for the sowing of wheat.

Soon a cavalcade moved through a side-gate of the yard, through a Blue-grass woodland, and into a sweep of stubble and ragweed; and far up the road on top of a little hill the mountain boy stopped his old mare and watched a strange sight in a strange land--a hunt without dog, stick, or gun.

The very face of the land showed decadence, and, in the wake of the witches, white top, dockweed, ragweed, cockle burr, and sweet fern had up-leaped like some joyous swarm of criminals unleashed from the hand of the law, while the beautiful pastures and grassy woodlands, their dignity outraged, were stretched here and there between them, helpless, but breathing in the very mists their scorn.