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leaf blade pulled back from stem to show the ligule

Starting with the basics of grass identification

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 don...
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field of golden orange colored indiangrass in the fall

Taking the first step to identifying grasses

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...
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