"penny-grass" meaning in English

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          "name": "Broomrape family plants",
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          "ref": "1670, J. B., The Epitome of the Art of Husbandry […] , London: Benjamin Billingſley, page 180:",
          "text": "Another Graſs is called Penny-Graſs; it groweth low, cloſe to the Earth, in mooriſh Grounds; it hath a Leaf as broad as Twopence , but never beareth a Flower.",
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          "ref": "1757, John Dyer, “Book I”, in The Fleece: A Poem […] , London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 40:",
          "text": "Nor taint-worm ſhall infect the yeaning herds / Nor penny-graſs, nor ſpearwort's poiſ'nous leaf.",
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          "ref": "1904, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Division of Zoology, Zoological Bulletin, volume 2, page 45:",
          "text": "Plants reported killed by copper sulphate solutions: Wild mustard, wild radish, wild barley, penny grass (if young), shepherds' purse , wild buckwheat[…]",
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        "yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)."
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        "(obsolete) yellow rattle (Rhinanthus minor)."
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