A broad-leaved herb other than a grass, especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow.
[From Greek phorbē, fodder, from pherbein, to graze.]
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A broad-leaved herb other than a grass, especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow.
A broad-leaved herb other than a grass, especially one growing in a field, prairie, or meadow.
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Native, nongrass, broadleaf, herbaceous range plants eaten by livestock. Responsible for a great deal of animal production in arid and semiarid regions. Includes saltbush, sage, shinoak.
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A broad-leaved herbaceous plant that grows alongside grasses in a field, prairie, or meadow.
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Forbs are herbaceous flowering plants that are not graminoids (grasses, sedges and rushes). The term is frequently used in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands. Forbs represent a guild of plant species with broadly similar growth form, which in ecology is often more important than taxonomic relationship.
In addition to its use in ecological studies, the term forb may also be used for subdividing popular guides to the wildflowers of a region, together with other categories such as ferns, grasses, shrubs and trees. This approach is not followed in formal regional floras, which are usually organised taxonomically.
Some examples of forbs are clover, sunflower and milkweed.
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