Nooooo! Wavyleaf basketgrass covers ground all right — it smothers everything. It’s worse than stiltgrass, if that’s even possible. The barbed seeds appear in late August-early fall.

But wavyleaf basketgrass is a much more pernicious foe, Towson University Associate Professor Vanessa Beauchamp explained to a group assembled July 11 at the park’s McKeldin area in Marriottsville.