Re: forbs

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• To: prairie@mallorn.com
• Subject: Re: forbs
• From: w* b* <s*@pacbell.net>
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:21:45 -0800
• References: <3.0.1.16.19980212184412.2ec78686@top.net>

GLENN POLLOCK wrote:
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> 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.
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I do thank you.I've been growing these plants for years and never knew.
Never wanted to ask.
Thanks again
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