What would happen if you had a dicot lawn and tried to mow it?
January 17th, 2009
nena asked:
Grasses (monocots) form their primary meristem near the ground surface rather than at the tips of branches the way dicots do. How does this feature allow you to grow a lawn and mow it every week in the summer? What would happen if you had a dicot lawn and tried to mow it?
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Grasses (monocots) form their primary meristem near the ground surface rather than at the tips of branches the way dicots do. How does this feature allow you to grow a lawn and mow it every week in the summer? What would happen if you had a dicot lawn and tried to mow it?
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That would be the end of that years growth.
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You’d get a lawn full of stalks….and you won’t have to mow your lawn again for a looong time. It’d look real ugly though.
Monocots evolved that way to deal with constant grazing, it lets them recover faster. However, once you get over a few feet tall, it soon becomes tedious to grow everything from the ground up. Which is why there aren’t any monocot “trees” except bamboos.