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By Jan Midgley In dry lands with few woody plants, grasses are the foundation of the landscape both functionally and aesthetically. But why should we include them in public and private designed landscapes? The small, wind-pollinated flowers are not as showy as the flowers of forbs (flowering herbaceous plants that are not a graminoid – […]https://frontrange.wildones.org/wp-content/images/sites/105/2025/06/Little-Bluestem-JM.jpg624717