 Most people would readily agree that this is a flower. Some people may not think that this is a flower though because it doesn't have brightly colored petals and a strong fragrance and so on. However, grasses are true flowering plants. Flowers like these have beautiful conspicuous flowers mainly to attract the insects or other animals that pollinate them. They use a lot of precious resources to produce bright petals, smells, nectar and so on. Grasses have a different strategy. They transport their pollen from plant to plant on our nearly constant summer breezes. On Wyoming's arid plains and sagebrush steppes, it makes sense to use the wind to distribute pollen and to use precious water and nutrients for other kinds of production. Yep, grasses, which are indeed flowers, learned thousands of years ago to use one of Wyoming's cheapest and most abundant energy sources, the wind, to propagate themselves. From the University of Wyoming Cooperative Extension Service, I'm Zola Ryan.