Comments on: Grass: An introduction https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/ Natural History Illustration - for books, magazines & packaging Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-11787 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:22:47 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-11787 In reply to richard smith.

Hi Richard

Wow! These are fascinating! I love this sort of stuff, youre completely correct. Goodness arent grasses just THE BEST? Thanks for the links. Very happy to have been pointed to them and to have spent a really happy bit of time being amazed. x

]]> By: richard smith https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-11769 Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:18:54 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-11769 Hi Lizzie – as they’ve all said – beautiful and highly informative work! Thanks+++!!!
I’ve been trying to understand adaptations in Australian grasses. Given your evident interest in ‘info about x’, you might like to add to your tales of ‘Goodness gracious – grasses!!’ the following links in which observers describe &/or explain how black speargrass (Heteropogon contortus) seeds screw themselves into moist soil. It’s a wonderful piece of small-scale engineering!
https://pennyroyalresearch.wordpress.com/2017/01/05/elucidating-the-mechanism-of-twisting-action-in-black-speargrass-awns/
and
https://www.malleeconservation.com.au/blog/speargrass
Best regards for your important and effective blending of art & science!!

]]> By: Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-11285 Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:45:27 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-11285 In reply to Kate.

Hi Kate

Thanks for your kind comments and glad to be of help. I always thought the bristle, or awn, was attached to the glume, but perhaps it is considered a separate structure. Sorry not to be more use! Thanks for asking.

]]> By: Kate https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-11250 Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:45:22 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-11250 In reply to Lizzie Harper.

Hi there,

Thank you for writing this :)) I am a horticulture student and this page has really helped me. Especially the break down of the inflorescence and flower structure.

I had a question regarding the individual spikelet diagram, is the bristle part of the floret within the glumes or a separate structure?

Thank you again 🙂

]]> By: Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-10025 Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:01:35 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-10025 In reply to Ken Coetzee.

Hi Ken

What an interesting project, and yes, this is certainly something I’d be able to help with. Please email me on info@lizzieharper.co.uk and let me know which grass species you are interested in using. Thank you for your lovely comments about my work, too.

]]> By: Ken Coetzee https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-10017 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 06:00:36 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-10017 Good day Ms. Harper,
I am an ecological consultant trying to help rural African people to manage their grasslands better. We have produced a series of very basic booklets which we explain by means of power point presentations. I came across your work and it is the best that I have seen. Would you consider letting us use two of your grass plant illustrations for our booklet on grass management and our power point on the subject. We hope to present in Rwanda and Ghana to groups of leaders in the conservation/agricultural field. I will of course acknowledge you as artist and author on each illustration.
Yours sincerely, Ken Coetzee.

]]> By: Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-10011 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 22:13:47 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-10011 In reply to Mark.

Ah, I may be able to draw grasses, but Im sure you know an enormous amo0unt more about them than I do! So I am jealous of your knowledge. Yours Lizzie

]]> By: Mark https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-10002 Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:35:26 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-10002 Stunning drawings! I’m a rancher and very interested in grass. I am so envious of your skills as an artist!

]]> By: Lizzie Harper https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-9611 Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:16:26 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-9611 In reply to Julie.

Hooray for you, Julie! Sedges are even trickier than grasses, I think, so that’s wonderful to hear.

]]> By: Julie https://lizzieharper.co.uk/2018/06/grass-an-introduction/#comment-9599 Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:17:00 +0000 https://lizzieharper.co.uk/?p=3065#comment-9599 Thank you for your gorgeous and informative work!
I found you whilst trying identify a grass. Do to you and the links, I learned it is a glaucous sedge.

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