What plants are in the grasslands and desert?
A xerophyte is a plant which is able to survive in an environment with little available water or moisture, usually in environments where potential evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation for all or part of the growing season. Grasslands dominant and characteristic plant type in grassland ecosystems is grass. Grasses are adapted to hot, dry areas: they have long, narrow leaves that lose less water than larger leaves do and their root systems are extensive and deep so that they can acquire water even during drought conditions. Most grasses are in the family Poaceae and share the grass characteristics of narrow, linear leaves. They often have inconspicuous flowers and rhizomes or stolons or creeping roots or stems. Many have silica throughout their tissue. Silica is what sand is mainly composed of and this makes grass strong and hard to chew and digest. Plants like the cacti and other succulents are typically found in deserts where low rainfall amounts are the norm, but xerophytes such a
