NEB&W Guide to Grass This file is open to website members only
Last Update: 2009-01-04
Scenery Table of Contents
Scenery, Structures & Details Table of Contents
Introduction
The word "grass" comes from a prehistoric Germanic root that also gave us "graze" (feed on grass), "green", "grow" and even "grain".Grasses are the most modern plants. I believe that actually the stem of the plant is at ground or below ground-level, and all you see are the leaves. What appears to be a stem is actually formed from rolled leaves. (Remember the parlor trick where you