Local names for grass

[Bacchus]

I've often wondered what exactly "couch grass" was as it was never a term I was familiar with. It wasn't until I really looked into it that I think the local name for it here is "scutch grass" - which is probably some form of Ulster-Scots / Irish mangling of the original name.

I suspect there are many instances where, even in the relatively neighbourly 4 nations of the UK, different terms apply for the same thing.

[Jeanied]

They used to call it 'twitch' grass where I grew up - but that was just the polite version

[lottie dolly]

Twitch here to,only really met couch on here,i think twitch suits it rather well,as it does twitch in any direction stuff that it is

[Aberdeenplotter]

stringly weed my now long dead uncle called it.

[Thelma Sanders]

according to the RHS it's

Couch grass, scutch grass, twitch grass

[Bren In Pots]

Couch grass here pronounced as cooch.

[Martin H]

I used to know it as "twitch", probably because of coming from the north west. But down here "couch" seems to be the commonest name.

Wikipedia says couch, common couch, twitch, quick grass, quitch grass, quitch, dog grass, quackgrass, scutch grass, and witchgrass. Plenty of choices there!

[veggiechicken]

Couch grass here - the Welsh name is Marchwellt which seems to translate as Horse straw.
Maybe Marchogaeth can help here

[arpoet]

Cant tell you what i call it... not on family forum... Have to keep the right side of miss whiplash seeing how its Christmas and all that.

[Alison]

I always called it twitch grass in the past but vary more now as people don't necessarily know what you're on about.