At 10:50 AM 7/14/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Lynnet Bannion wrote:
>
>Grass is one of the newest "developements" in the plant kingdom
>and due to its 1-year life-cycle extremely able to adapt to the
>harshest conditions.
>(I can also tell you from my garden that it is)

Where do you get this grass is an annual and an evolutionarily recent
develop.  You couldn't be more wrong on both points.  Actually, there are
annual grasses, but the grasses that make up the climax ecosystems of
western north america and the african savanna are definitely perennial.