In botany and ecology, a graminoid refers to a herbaceous plant with a grass-like morphology, i.e., elongated culms with long, blade-like leaves. They...
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A forb or phorb is an herbaceous flowering plant that is not a graminoid (grass, sedge, or rush). The term is used in botany and in vegetation ecology...
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The Cyperaceae (/ˌsaɪpəˈreɪsi.iː, -ˌaɪ/) are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large;...
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Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sedges, Cyperaceae, are a family of graminoid (grass-like) flowering plants named for the saw-like edges of their leaves...
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bunchberry dogwood, bluejoint, and stiff clubmoss.: 22–23 There are few graminoid wetlands in the park. Wetlands and open water are very scarce; there is...
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In times of famine they eat dead fish or marine mammals, berries, and graminoid vegetation. Kamchatka brown bears are generally not dangerous to humans...
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category of graminoid, although strictly speaking these are not included within the study of agrostology. In contrast to the word graminoid, the words...
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Herbaceous plants include graminoids, forbs, and ferns. Forbs are generally defined as herbaceous broad-leafed plants, while graminoids are plants with grass-like...
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to occur. St. Francis' satyr is found in wetland habitats dominated by graminoids and sedges, such as abandoned beaver dams or along streams with beavers...
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lists the graminoid species of Soldiers Delight Natural Environmental Area located in western Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Graminoids, within...
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105725. Rooney, T.P. (2009). "High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation"...
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mosquito Ae. aegypti, totalled very high economic costs, followed by non-graminoid terrestrial flowering and aquatic plants (Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Ludwigia...
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high-productivity grasses, herbs and willow shrubs. The herbaceous flora included graminoids such as wild rye, bluegrass, junegrass, fescue, and sedge, and also diverse...
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A.; Wooller, Matthew J.; Zazula, Grant D. (2011-10-01). "Pleistocene graminoid-dominated ecosystems in the Arctic". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30 (21):...
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abundance of palatable understory herbaceous shrubs, and increases in graminoid and bryophyte abundance which are released from competition for light...
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process of prairie formation and the establishment of the diversity of graminoid and forbs species. Fire has the effect on prairies of removing trees,...
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Carex ischnostachya is an herbaceous graminoid plant in the sedge family (Cyperaceae). It is native to the eastern Asia, where it is found in China, Japan...
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the family Poaceae. Broader usages sometimes also include grass-like or graminoid species from the families Cyperaceae, Juncaceae, and Typhaceae. alate...
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A.; Wooller, Matthew J.; Zazula, Grant D. (2011-10-01). "Pleistocene graminoid-dominated ecosystems in the Arctic". Quaternary Science Reviews. 30 (21):...
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forests, and wet meadows. Carex cherokeensis is a rhizomatous perennial graminoid. It has drooping spikes which are 8–9 mm thick. Its perigynium beaks are...
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Crown Hill Park (section Graminoids)
Crown Hill Park is a 242-acre (0.98 km2) recreation area operated by Jefferson County Open Space in unincorporated Jefferson County, Colorado. The park...
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conditions. Arctic vegetation is composed of plants such as dwarf shrubs, graminoids, herbs, lichens, and mosses, which all grow relatively close to the ground...
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many different types of semi-natural grasslands, e.g. hay meadows. The graminoids are among the most versatile life forms. They became widespread toward...
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List of bamboo species (category Lists of graminoids)
Bamboo is a group of woody perennial plants in the true grass family Poaceae. In the tribe Bambuseae, also known as bamboo, there are 91 genera and over...
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open tree canopy. The montane forests are interspersed with areas of graminoid scrub, generally associated with hypermagnesic cambisol soils. Sub-alpine...
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Other common plant life-forms include prostrate shrubs; tussock-forming graminoids; cushion plants; and cryptogams, such as bryophytes and lichens. Relative...
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and Bromus spp. in the early part of the breeding season and new non-graminoid herbaceous plants in the mid and late season. In wetlands, they consistently...
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List of Carex species (category Lists of graminoids)
The genus Carex, the sedges, is one of the largest genera of flowering plants, containing of over 2000 species, according to the Royal Botanic Gardens...
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as vegetables), and a few "seasonings" like sugarcane and lemongrass. Graminoids, especially the grasses, are typically dominant in open (low moisture...
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in bottomland woods, and in wet prairies. Carex joorii is a perennial graminoid. It produces fruits in the summer through early fall. USDA, NRCS (n.d...
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