corn is......grass....????????

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you know it!!! even better, bamboos are grasses, too, although (and i mention this because they’re relatively well known plants that give off strong grass vibes) cattails aren’t grass and actually form a family of their own (family name ‘typhaceae’). the technical grass family name is ‘poaceae’, if you feel compelled to go down that rabbithole, lmao.

the grass family is huge. not the biggest plant family in terms of species, but def one that’s found how to operate in any and all situations and habitats. also, grass has a lot of sex to the point where its notoriously hard to identify some grasses (usually ones that are more closely related to one another) because they’re just...having too much sex, and who knows who the parents were, not to mention that there’s not a whole lot of identifying features to go off of to begin with.