11 Benefits of Grasses What are grasses? Grasses are graminoids or rosette-forming herbaceous turfs with narrow leaves. True grasses are flowering monocots and belong to the Gramineae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae family. Cereals such as rice, wheat, maize, lawn grass, bamboo are true grasses of the Family Gramineae or Poaceae. The Cyperaceae include many wild sedges, marshes and grassland plants, including some cultivated water chestnut and papyrus sedge. The Juncaceae include the commonly known the rush that look like grasses and sedges.…
