In botany, the largest order among endogenous plants except the orchids, and the most important in the entire vegetable kingdom, everywhere distributed throughout the globe, and comprising 300 genera and over 3,000 species.

noun. the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane.

noun. the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane

"Near the Sierra Madre Oriental, the scrub becomes a strict combination of Agave victoria-reginae with lechuguilla, guapilla (Hechtia glomerata), barreta (Helietta parviflora), sotol (Dasylirion sp.) and a well-developed herbaceous stratum composed of gramineae, leguminosae and cacti."

liliopsid family  monocot family  

calamagrostis  genus calamagrostis  

bamboo  family graminaceae  family gramineae  family poaceae  graminaceae