Why does grass grow???? Is it just for cows ect... to eat??

Answer 1

This question is very interesting and has not been properly answered in this section.

I am not a botanist, but I have observed the life cycle of grass and I will try to address your question.

If grass grows without being cut (or eaten) it will bloom and seeds will germinate and the grass will die quickly.

If the grass is cut or eaten it will not germinate and it will be alive and growing for several years. They have strong roots (compared to its size) that allows them to stay on the soil even after been cut and pulled up. So it seems that in fact grass has adapted to survive as food for animals as you pointed out.

Another interesting phenomenon is that after snow accumulates, grass growth accelerates and is very common to see grass blades sticking out from the snow air interface (to be eaten?).

Another important fact is that grass appear hundreds of million years later than trees in the fossil record. So they are more evolved than trees.

Grass may be in fact benefit from being eaten since animals provide fertilizers and disperse the seed. Grass can spread from a mother plant to form a new one by a rhizome or stolon, that will grow a crown from which grasses grow both the roots and the blades (or leaves).

I wish I knew more...

Answer 2

Evolution has no purpose. Grass found (by the happenstance processes of evolution) a niche, and is exploiting it. Humans found another niche: get some animal to eat all that grass and then you get to eat the animal. So they bred cows from less manageable forebearers. They also made space for grass, so they could have more cows.

So the answer is: sort of yes, sort of no.

Answer 3

For real, no. It is simply life. Grass grows to show that there is life on this planet. Cows just live their lives as we do ours. There was no need to waste 5 points just to ask "Why does grass grow?"

Answer 4

It's a plant...like all plants, they grow fed by the energy from the sun. The fact that cows (and other animals) eat it is incidental to the grass. (But the grass is critical to the cow's survival).

Answer 5

Hi,

Why do you grow? That is a question grass may ask.

Grass grows because God made it happen that way. It is also an ingredient of life that many animals like!

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Answer 6

Grass actually helps in erosion control, if it wasn't for grass the soil would just get washed away all the time,it also gives retired people an exercise to do ! ( Mowing the lawn ) !

Answer 7

Grass grows for the same reason you eat and breathe right now; to survive to pass your genes on.

Answer 8

Not really. Grass grows to hold the soil firm to prevent soil erosion. Also, ever heard of photosynthesis?

Answer 9

some grass grows to be smoked this is called weed
the reason for this is grass is a weed it grows any where and every where by definition a weed

Answer 10

Grass grow because they're living things, and all living things grow.