Dicots, monocots and ‘hairy’ grass

MILFORD, PA — Megan Krause, Madeleine Yost and Amanda Bogusta show the grass that they planted as part of their study of plants in Allen Brocious’ fourth-grade class. When it grew it looked a lot like hair, so they drew faces on them. The students learned that grass is a monocot, meaning that when it sprouts, it grows one leaf at a time, unlike dicots such as beans, that grow two leaves at a time.