Wow, Sweet WO'N, what a great site! Thank you! I'm bookmarking that one.

WW, what his site calls Trumpetcreeper (a name I have never heard, incidentally, though I have heard it referred to as trumpet vine) is what my mother called Devil's Shoestrings. Is it the same plant that your grandmother called Devil's Shoelaces?

Vaseygrass seems to fit your description. I do hope that's not it. What an uninspiring name!