How does grass grow? Why is it green?

In this video we are getting back to some grass fundamentals and looking at how grass grows and why it is green. First, we need to look at what grass actually is. What is grass? Grass is a common name for a large family of plants called Gramineae. Without going into too much of the biology of these plants, they have a simple structure with roots that grow into the soil, stems that grow from the base of the plant known as a crown and from these stems leaves extend that consist of a sheath and blade. Some grasses creep along the ground with stems known as stolons and some also have stems called rhizomes that grow below the ground. How does grass grow? Just like trees and other plants, grass converts energy from sunlight into sugar through the process of photosynthesis. This energy is used to convert water and carbon dioxide into glucose. Carbon dioxide is absorbed through the stomata in the leaf of the grass and water is mainly derived from uptake in the roots. The glucose is u