It had a short brown stalk on which was mounted a yellow frilled brim.

The grasses rushed up from the earth, displacing the dry brown stalks of last year.

Should we trim off all the brown stalks?

The women are bare topped and look like bright flowers upside down, their golden torsos the pale brown stalks.

The potted plants on the porch had turned to brown, leafless stalks.

Behind the stone was a higher meadow, where fresh green shoots twined up between the frayed and brown stalks of the previous year.

The brown stalks slapped softly against their legs and left seeds on the cotton of their trousers.

The plant has heart-shaped leaves, folded through the middle, that occur in groups of three atop a reddish brown stalk.

Around me, on all sides, neat rows of green and brown stalks stretched to the tree lines that bordered our land.

He spits toward the brown stalks of the frost-killed herb garden.