tussock

noun2

1. •
   A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.

   • An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear. — 1894
2. •
   Tussock grass.

   • I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock. — 1985