The True Grasses are a family of monocotyledonous plants (order Liliopsida), formerly known as "Graminae".
As well as many familiar wild plants, the family encompasses the 'cereals', the immensely important agricultural grasses grown as food such as wheat, rice, rye, maize, barley and millet which provide most of humanity's calorofic intake, also other economically important species such as forage grasses, sugar cane and bamboo.
Grasses are characterised by;-
| A single seed leaf or 'cotyledon'. |
| Hollow stems know as 'culms' which are plugged at intervals by 'nodes'. |
| Leaves arising at the nodes which are alternate and almost always distichous (in a single plane) although rarely spiral. |
| Leaves, part of which form a 'sheath' around the stem for a short distance and a 'blade', the margin of which is usually entire. |
| A'ligule' (membranous appendage or ring of hairs) at thejunction between the sheath and the blade. |
| Small flowers without petals which are wind pollinated and occur clustered in and 'inflorescence', often a 'spike' or 'tassel'. |
| | | | kingdom | Plantae | | phylum | Magnoliophyta | | class | Liliopsida | | order | Poales | | family | Poaceae Grasses
fomerly Graminae | | genus | | | species | |
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| Koeleria vallesiana vallesiana |
| | A British rarity, restricted to the Mendip Hills. |
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