The word forbs is a slang term for flowering plants found in prairies. Now were does this term comes from? My educated guess is that it comes from the name of the family of plants fabaceace. The term was shorten to forbs. Not all flowering plants of the prairie are in the fabaceace family but the term has stuck. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the message text UNSUBSCRIBE PRAIRIE