Grasses

Grasses

Flowering heads of grasses have specialised leaves or bracts and instead of the sepals and petals of a typical flower they have tiny scales or lodicules at one side of the ovary. It is the arrangement and structure of the flower parts that indicate how different grass species are related to one another. In most grasses each small flower has three stamens and two feathery styles attached to the ovary. [CH] {GR}