Grasses

Poaceae () or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass. With around 780 genera and around 12,000 species, the Poaceae is the fifth-largest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae, Fabaceae and Rubiaceae.The Poaceae are the most economically important plant family, providing staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, barley, and millet as well as feed for meat-producing animals. They provide, …

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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English

“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …

colonially known as North America. These aquatic grasses grow in the shallow, slow-moving waters of lakes “virtually indistinguishable from other native grasses” and requires scanning using specialized equipment several rondel phytoliths, which are produced in grasses, have distinctive characteristics only present


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

land was swept clean of my family’s life. Wild grasses grew unchecked. Although forlorn, the place was


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 October 2024 English

With a shock, these frankenlines come alive. In Recombinant Theory a monster surges forth, a new freedom is sung.

sky are strings in the terrible distance, the grasses in the fields come out like stars in the dark against a constantly changing background. The grasses in the fields come out like stars in the dark.


Invasive Species Council of BC · 26 September 2024 English

Fruits: The berries are globe to egg-shaped and can range from red to orange, or green depending on ripeness. [...] It can adapt to many conditions, from dry to flooded …

bittersweet nightshade is present, as it doesn’t affect grasses. On Crown land, pesticide application must follow


Great Lakes United · 25 September 2024 English

This inconsistency in regulated species lists across the shared waters of the Great Lakes undermines the collective prevention efforts of the region, resulting in a “weakest link” problem, wherein the …

being and protecting the beauty and sedges, and grasses done in a real-world • Monitor water quality environment


PICES: North Pacific Marine Science Organization · 22 September 2024 English

All names, views and claims expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and do not represent those of the PICES Organization, nor those of their affiliated organizations, …

from the site, and ecosystem random sampling) grasses found no bad effect of oyster services and (mobile


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English

In lush and vivid poems, Cynthia Woodman Kerkham ponders the urgent question, What does water want? Whether as the body of a beloved lake, where people wrestle with the concerns …

ephemerals come first – wildflowers, fireweed – then grasses, quick trees – aspen and birch. Decades on, tall by new beavers. All around the lake, weeds rot, grasses seed and bloom on fallen nurse logs, roots drown


CHB: Coach House Books · 10 September 2024 English

CBC BOOKS' "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024" Imagining a vast blue expanse of what a poem might be The Sky Is a Sky in the Sky …

falters like temporary trees – listens to November grasses before small birds rattle the sunrise but now arching fall branches come around Silver sidewalk grasses surrounded by bright leaves grow for hidden glimpses dark almost light Lightning’s dance bends over grasses – 44 –hides the spring__sways from here to here


FRHD: Freehand Books · 1 September 2024 English

A memoir about abandoning an exhausting commuter lifestyle to move to a cabin in the woods, embracing imperfection while cultivating a life of care for self and nature. Alice Irene …

ago. The land, in a process of rewilding, grew grasses to the height of my shoulders and small trees barrenness. I swatted at the bugs in the long meadow grasses, and tucked back into the merciful forest to make


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 27 August 2024 English

In this essay, based on her writer-in-residence lecture at Athabasca University, Myrna Kostash offers a self-critical reflection on her body of work and considers how her visits to Ukraine and …

ing thatched roofs into a yard gone wild with grasses and yellow daisies. It would not be the first


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