Everything was doing well; but it had been a late spring that year, and the cat's-tail was barely forming as yet, while the clover had just begun to show bloom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wanderers] Reference

Their lives are passed in the great sand plains and along the adjacent rivers; they subsist sometimes on fish, at other times on roots and the seeds of a plant, called the cat's-tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference