Sentence examples for grassy plant from inspiring English sources

The wild ancestor of our present-day corn is a grassy plant called teosinte.

As we are informed by one of the helpful signs, a meadow at the garden's highest point is inspired by "balds": "the grassy plant communities that inhabit certain mountain slopes and ridge tops in the southern Appalachians".

The tall grassy plant produces seeds that look and smell nearly identical to animal droppings (pictured in the image above).

Despite of the relatively higher hemicellulose level of Mlu26 than Msi34, both samples showed very similar monosaccharide compositions (Table 2), indicating a typical xylan structure of grassy plant that is mainly composed of xylose and arabinose [ 14].

For a brief period before June, the land is covered with a variety of flowering and grassy plants.

These data support the presence of wooded or bushy vegetation with some grassy plants.

The coexistence of woody and grassy plants in savannas has often been attributed to a rooting-niche separation (two-layer hypothesis).

Miscanthus is a C4 perennial plant that has the highest biomass yield among grassy plants, and is currently considered as the leading candidate for biofuel feedstock [ 23- 25].

The biomass of blue grama, the predominant grass species and main forage for cattle, has declined by more than 50%, while weedy flowers and other non-grassy plants have invaded and established a strong beachhead.

A single turkeybeard, a grassy little plant that flourishes in sunny areas disturbed by storm or fire, was blooming in the Pine Barrens here.

Amwell Township is a 44-square-mile plot of steep ravines and grassy pasturelands planted with alfalfa, trefoil and timothy in the southwestern corner of Pennsylvania.