Science of Graminoids

Grasses or more technically graminoids are monocotyledonous usually herbaceous plants with narrow leaves growing from the base. They include the true grasses of the Poaceae (or Gramineae) family as well as the sedges (Cyperaceae) and the rushes (Juncaceae). The true grasses include cereals bamboo and the grasses of lawns (turf) and grassland. Sedges include many wild marsh and grassland plants and some cultivated ones such as water chestnut (Eleocharis dulcis) and papyrus sedge (Cyperus papyrus). Uses for graminoids include food (as grain sprouted grain shoots or rhizomes) drink (beer whisky) pasture for livestock thatch paper fuel clothing insulation construction sports turf basket weaving and many others.