Poaceae or Gramineae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonly referred to collectively as grass.
Poaceae
Grass flowers
Drawing of Anomochloa marantoidea, one of the most primitive living grass species
Setaria verticillata from Panicoideae
Monocotyledons, commonly referred to as monocots, are grass and grass-like flowering plants (angiosperms), the seeds of which typically contain only one embryonic leaf, or cotyledon. They constitute one of the major groups into which the flowering plants have traditionally been divided; the rest of the flowering plants have two cotyledons and are classified as dicotyledons, or dicots.
Image: Wheat close up
Image: Araceae Colocasia esculenta 1
Image: Phoenix Dactylifera Date Palm Fields South Coast Wholesale
Image: Seagrass Zostera marina (Dzharylhach island)