What do you see when you look at a grass? Green leaves in a bunch? The cause of your allergies? A plant that constantly needs to be mowed? Grasses do not invite easy identification. They are missing the number one useful identification feature – a colorful flower! But that’s not to say that they...

I never thought I’d be called “the grass lady.” When I started getting into plant identification, I too looked at grasses as a group of plants that only the best of the best could identify – and that was most definitely not me. And then I found myself in an internship where I needed to tell...