Firmgrass

Firmgrass (Arudamimus durusgramen)

Creator: BioCat Ancestor: Arudamarg Habitat: Barlowe Chaparral, Barlowe Plains Size: 80 cm Tall Diet: Photosynthesis Reproduction: Asexual Runners

The firmgrass split from its ancestor the arudamard. It has grown twice its size and became thicker and harder. Another important adaption it made was increasing the levels of lignin in it, a chemical that keeps it leaves harder and stiffer. It is now extremely tough and inedible for most herbivores. Because of the lignin’s yellow color the whole plant is now colored with yellow with a purplish tint in the tips. This damages the efficiency of its photosynthesis as less yellow and green light is absorbed, therefore the firmgrass grows very slowly. It has also lost completely the regeneration ability its ancestors had as it’s too stiff for it. It still reproduces using runners, though in hard times and when the plant is still young it will often kill off the young plants that start growing next to it or even merge with them by thickening the root that connects the two. Only when the plant gets too old the new plants that grow next to it overcome it and thrive. Because of this they are not clustered like their ancestors but still grow slightly spaced from each other in a common general patch.