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• The United States devotes about one-fifth of its land to agriculture, and the largest single food crop is corn. However, lawns take up three times more acreage than corn. In fact, turf grown in parks, golf courses, and yards takes up more space in the U.S. than corn, wheat, and fruit trees combined. About half of the grass grown in the U.S. is located in micro-plots of American lawns. • Lawns became fashionable in the 1600s. A lawn was a status symbol. Only the very rich could afford to grow a completely useless crop on their property. Lawns had to be cut by hand with sickles and scythes. But all that changed in the year 1830, when English engineer Edwin Budding invented the lawn mower, inspired by the revolving bladed reel he saw trimming fabric in cloth mills. Lawns began to crop up in public spaces and then on private land. The first lawn care book, “The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds” was published in 1870. Today, about 85 million households in the United States have lawns. (Continued next page)

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LAWNS (cont’d) • A lawn absorbs rainfall and prevents run-off. In fact, a lawn is six times more effective at retaining water than a wheat field. • Lawns are better at producing oxygen than trees, and their season is longer, too. A lawn 50 feet (15 m) by 50 feet produces enough oxygen to meet the needs of a family of four. • Landscapes that include grass lawns, trees, and shrubs can reduce the air temperature surrounding a home by up to 14°F. • Lawns are healthier if clippings are left behind. Clippings shade the ground, slowing evaporation. They decompose, providing nutrients. Grass is healthier if allowed to grow taller, which gives it more surface for photosynthesis, and also crowds out weeds. • The drawback of lawns is that about 80 million pounds of pesticides and up to 70 million pounds of fertilizers are applied to lawns in the U.S. every year, far more per acre than crop land. • The smell of freshly mown grass or newly cut hay is actually the odor of a set of chemical compounds called green leaf volatiles which are given off by the plant when it is injured. Some of the chemical secretions rush to the injury to bind the wound and protect against fungal infections. Other chemicals act as airborne messengers, signaling predatory insects such as wasps who prey upon grass-munching caterpillars. And some chemicals merely taste bad, in order to discourage animals and insects from continuing to eat the plant. Plants downwind of the injured grass will also begin to produce these bad-tasting chemicals to protect themselves in advance of being eaten. This is the reason giraffes have learned to eat from a tree, and then continue to graze upon other trees that are upwind instead of downwind. (Continued next page)

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• A type of grass called zoysia grows sideways along the ground instead of up, so it needs less mowing. And it tolerates drought well, so it needs less watering. The plant is named after botanist Karl von Zois. A mixture of zoysia and fescue can stay green year-round in the southern U.S. The zoysia stays green in summer and fescue stays green in winter. THEgrass “X” is FACTOR • Bermuda one of the(continued): most popular • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If climates, you have varieties of grasses for lawns in warm abnormal dryness of the skin, this term applies but it is also one of the most allergenic. The to you! flowers of the plant bloom almost continuously, • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on but they grow so low to the ground that lawnthe Mediterranean Sea sailed a small threemowers pass right over them. They produce masted vessel with square and triangular sails pollen in such amounts that year-round enabled them to prolific sail faster than their prospective Depending on the size of that some citiesvictims. have banned the plant. Berthe ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 muda grass is not native to Bermuda. Instead, guns might be mounted on the vessel. it’s actually considered an invasive species in • The word xenia has a variety of meanings. Bermuda. However, it arrived in the U.S. from To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept of Bermuda, and that’s how itand got its name. shown hospitality, generosity, courtesy

to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s the effectGREAT of pollen on a seed. And to those in GRASSES Ohio, it’s the county seat of Greene County, • Aside from lawns, grasses in general are an a community about 21 miles (34 km) from amazing group of plants. There are over 12,000 Dayton. different species grass, making it one of theto • Xystus is an of architectural term, referring most abundant families of plants. The scientific a long, covered portico, or main entrance, of ancient Greek gymnasiums. Here, athletes name for the family of grasses is “Poaceae” would exercise inclement“fodder.” weather. from the Greek wordduring “poa” meaning To the Romans, the xystus was the garden Grasses are the single wide-spread plant walkway in front ofmost the porticoes, where they family, and can be found in areas ranging from planted flower beds. jungles to deserts to mountaintops and tidal • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” flats. words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a surgical instrument used scraping bones, • Grasslands account for overfor 25% of the vegwhile the xiphisterna refers to the cartilage etative cover on Earth, ranging from the savan-at the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long nahs of Africa to the prairies of the Midwestern flat bone located at the center of the chest. United States to the steppes of Mongolia. Areas • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” that do several not haveof grasslands include such and our words use it places for a prefix. as Xanthophyll Greenland and Antarctica. Yet, a plant called is a yellow pigment found along with cholorophyll in green plants. and Plants Antarctic hairgrass grows in Antarctica with yellow stems World are xanthopous. is listed by Guinness Records as To thethose suffering from the abnormal vision condition southernmost flowering plant on Earth. There known as xanthopsia, everything they see areseems aboutto1,400 ofhue. grasses in the United havespecies a yellow

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• Grasses evolved to grow at the base of the plant instead of at the tip. This makes it easier to recover when it is grazed, mowed, trampled, or burned. • The first grasses ever cultivated by humans were probably wheat and barley. Agricultural grasses grown for their edible seeds are called cereals or grains. Three cereals – rice, wheat, and maize (corn) – provide more than half of all calories eaten by humans. Of all crops grown by humans, 70% are grasses. • Fossilized dinosaur dung from the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago shows remnants of plants very closely related to modern bamboo and rice. Bamboo is the tallest species of grass. • Timothy grass is a grass commonly cultivated, cut, and baled for the purpose of feeding livestock. It’s named after American agriculturist Timothy Hanson, who convinced farmers in the northern U.S. that it could grow just as well in colder regions as it does in the south. • Cogon grass sports blades of grass that are so sharp they act like little knives. The edge of each blade is embedded with silica crystals that act like the teeth of a saw. The edges are sharp enough to cut the mouths of animals trying to feed upon it. Even the roots have barbed edges, cutting the roots of competing plants up to four feet (1.2 m) deep. • Pampas grass grows tall with feathery plumes often collected by people to serve as decorations. The word “pampas” is a South American term meaning “plain” and the plains of South America are the plant’s native habitat. Pampas is an invasive weed that is hard to kill. Each plant can produce over a million seeds during its lifetime. Pampas grass burns so hot that it contributes to spreading wildfire. Yet, the roots of pampas grass are likely to survive the fire, and live to spread another million seeds.

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ERGOT (cont’d) • A French doctor named Thuillier was the first to understand that the mysterious disease that killed so many of his patients was caused by the consumption of contaminated rye bread. After a great deal of sleuthing, he noted that ergotism was a disease suffered only by poor rural people and not by rich urban people. He realized that poor rural people ate rye bread which was cheap and readily available, while wealthier people in cities preferred the more expensive white bread made from wheat. His efforts to alert the populace fell on deaf ears. It was two centuries later before a researcher named Louis Tulasne, who was illustrating the life cycle of the rye plant, realized that ergot was a fungus separate from the plant, and that it has poisonous qualities. • Today, rye seeds are given a salt bath. The healthy seeds sink, while the ergot-infected imposters float to the top, where they can easily be scooped off. Ergot spores cannot survive if they are buried under more than an inch of soil, so deep plowing reduces the infection rate. The spores cannot survive more than a year, so farmers alternate crops with varieties that are not susceptible to infection. If wild pastures are mowed before the grasses flower, ergot contamination is reduced. • Ergot outbreaks are uncommon in developed countries due to these preventative measures. However, in less wealthy countries, ergotism still occurs. In 2001 an outbreak in Ethiopia was traced to contaminated barley following ideal conditions for an outbreak: moist weather, cool temperatures, and a delayed harvest. Barley flowers stay open longer when the weather is cool and wet, giving ergot a greater opportunity to infect the plant. • Ergot also has medicinal properties under the right conditions. Extracts from the plant can be used to relieve migraine headaches and reduce bleeding after childbirth. Ergot is the species from which LSD was first created.

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